Cocaine Drama ZeroZeroZero Starts Filming, Sets Cast

Filming has officially begun on ZeroZeroZero, produced by Cattleya for Sky, Canal+ and Amazon.

The filming will take place over eight months across three continents and six countries, and will be shot in six languages: English, Spanish, Italian, French, Wolof and Arabic. ZeroZeroZero will debut in 2019 on Canal+ in French-speaking Europe and Africa; on Sky in Italy, the U.K., Ireland, Germany and Austria; and on Amazon in the U.S., Canada, Latin America and Spain. International sales are handled by STUDIOCANAL.

The eight-episode series features an international cast, starring Andrea Riseborough (The Death of Stalin, Battle of the Sexes, Waco), Dane DeHaan (Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, The Amazing Spiderman 2, In Treatment), Gabryel Byrne (In Treatment, The Usual Suspects, Miller’s Crossing), Harold Torres (González: Falsos Profetas, Sin Nombre, Norteado), Giuseppe De Domenico (Euphoria), Francesco Colella (Made in Italy, Feather) and Tcheky Karyo (Nikita, Les Lyonnais).

The series is developed by the same creative team behind Gomorrah, Leonardo Fasoli, Stefano Bises, Roberto Saviano and Stefano Sollima, and is written by co-head writers Leonardo Fasoli and Mauricio Katz (The Bridge, Niño Santo).

ZeroZeroZero is the story of different but equally violent and power-hungry criminals, of family dynamics and Mexican cartels, the Ndrangheta (the Calabrian mafia) and corrupt businessmen fighting over control over the world’s most heavily distributed product: cocaine.

Sollima said: “In the globalized world, markets, production and consumption, even different lifestyles, are all interconnected, thanks to the continuous flow of trade that bring tons of goods to billions of people. In ZeroZeroZero we want to tell the story of just one of these goods: probably the most universally distributed, widely consumed and, above all, most profitable. And we are going to do it by following a container ship and its load from its point of departure in Mexico to its final destination in Calabria, describing how the international trafficking of this special ‘commodity’ is affecting the market, the world economy and even our lives. This special good is cocaine, and its journey is our own.”