Friday, October 9, 2026

New Ennio Morricone Doc to Delve Into Legendary Composer’s Concert Activity

 The project is based on the perspective of his manager Luigi Caiola, who produced over 250 Morricone concerts all over the world

 Variety

By Nick Vivarelli

March 9, 2026


Oscar-winning composer Ennio Morricone will get the big-screen treatment in a new documentary titled “I Never Wrote Music for Films — We All Love Ennio Morricone.”

The project is based on the perspective of his manager Luigi Caiola, who produced over 250 Morricone concerts all over the world.

“I Never Wrote Music for Films” follows director Giuseppe Tornatore’s widely sold Morricone doc “Ennio” that launched from Venice in 2021.

The new Morricone doc is being produced by Milan-based Marie Mariad Cinema and Chinese multihyphenate Yi Zhou along with Caiola, who managed the maestro from 1997 to 2015, producing his global concert tours as well as the Grammy-winning tribute album “We All Love Ennio Morricone.”

Zhou, who produced and co-directed the doc “Chronicles of Disney,” on Monday announced the new Morricone doc, which she is boarding through her companies Into the Sun Films and Colors of the Sun Ventures.

Morricone, who died in 2020 at age 91, was one of the most prolific and admired composers in film history. Starting in 1946, he composed over 500 scores for film and television, as well as over 100 pieces of music for orchestral performance. At least a dozen of his scores became classics, from the so-called spaghetti Westerns of the 1960s including Sergio Leone’s “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” and “Once Upon a Time in the West,” to the Cannes Palm d’Or-winning Roland Joffe film “The Mission” and “Cinema Paradiso” of the 1980s.


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