Variety
By Nick Vivarelli
February 11, 2018
Irish director Brian O’Malley, who is known for gothic
chillers “Let Us Pray” and “The Lodgers,” is attached to co-direct the
English-language steampunk spaghetti Western series “That Dirty Black Bag” with
Italy’s Mauro Aragoni. It’s set to start shooting in August.
“That Dirty Black Bag” is being produced by Palomar, the
Italian shingle behind upcoming “The Name of the Rose” series that will air on
Sundance TV in the U.S., and teen gangs drama “Piranhas,” which is screening in
the Berlinale competition. O’Malley recently served as a second-unit director
on “Name of the Rose.”
Italian streamer TIMVision, operated by Telecom Italia,
is on board as the eight-episode show’s Italian broadcaster.
Palomar was recently acquired by France’s Mediawan, which
will handle international sales on “Black Bag.”
Aragoni created “Black Bag” and previously shot it in his
native Sardinia as a low-budget feature.
The “Black Bag” series, co-scripted by Aragoni with
Silvia Ebreul and Marcello Izzo, will instead be shot mostly in Italy’s rugged
Apulia region, which producer Nicola Serra said “will give it a distinctive
flavor,” and also in Morocco since part of the narrative is set in a deserted
setting where two men, a bounty hunter and a sheriff, collide in an epic clash.
Serra, who is Palomar’s managing director, said the
combination of Aragoni and O’Malley co-directing “Black Bag” was right “in
terms of both its visual and narrative” tones.
He called the show “a Western, with a bit of a horror and
mystery, and with elements of steampunk,” The partners describe the story as
set in a savage, scorched and deserted world where resources are scarce and
it’s a daily struggle for survival. There, two men and two worlds will collide
in an epic clash. That Dirty Black Bag will film next year in Italy and other
southern European countries.
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