EXCLUSIVE: A global drama sequence billed because the “Brazilian Succession” is being developed, with Nothing to Lose director Alexandre Avancini connected.
Diosual Tv Studios, the TV arm of Diosual Leisure, has created Whose Cash Is It?, with telenovela author Solange Castro Neves writing in collaboration with Thalma Bertozzi.
The sequence is an adaptation of the Brazilian non-fiction guide ‘Whose Cash Is It? Concern, Luck and Dangerous Luck: Victories and Stumbles within the Inventory Market’ (‘De Quem é o Dinheiro? Ganância, Medo, Azar e Sorte: Vitórias e Tropeços na Bolsa’) by Adley Piovesan and Homero Chemale.
The plan is for a three-season sequence, with Diosual in search of co-production and co-investment companions, with two worldwide streamers understood to have been near closing offers.
The plot is billed as a “a household drama with parts of motion and investigation,” going down within the monetary markets of the current day with flashbacks from three a long time in the past. It facilities on the Salvatore Abud household, whose billionaire patriarch, Ítalo, is the proprietor of one of many largest brokerages in Brazil.
Logline reads: “A rich banker loses his solely son in a tragic aircraft crash. He turns into the tutorial guardian of his two grandchildren, who he raises underneath strict guidelines. His intention is to insert the boy into the enterprise world, however it’s his granddaughter who lives as much as his expectations, changing into the She-Wolf of the inventory market.
“The fixed quarrels between him and his daughter-in-law solely finish when she involves undergo a horrible, mysterious felony assault. The millionaire’s world is shattered when he discovers that his mistress was behind the kidnapping of the mom of his grandchildren and chargeable for the loss of life of his son. In mild of his emotional turmoil, his heirs take over the household enterprise, altering the course of the nation’s monetary historical past.”
Director Avancini’s credit embody The Ten Commandments and Nothing to Lose, each of that are amongst Brazil’s greatest ever field workplace hits. He directed sequel Nothing to Lose 2 and likewise labored for the Rede Globo community for 23 years.
“I’m enthusiastic about this sequence as will probably be the primary to painting the monetary market in Brazil,” he stated in a press release to Deadline. “When [Diosual CEO] Guto Colunga invited me to direct, I used to be utterly fascinated by this story. I noticed that it was precisely a Brazilian Succession, being a household drama with all attainable elements. In fact, there are various actual parts, however we additionally use inventive freedom. Solange and Thalma knew precisely find out how to adapt a sequence that I not solely consider will be a focus for the Brazilian viewers and critics but additionally internationally. I can’t wait to begin filming.”
Colunga added: “This story has as its backdrop the monetary system and its characters, who typically turn into harmful devices, producing alternatives for fast wealth. It reveals that these harmed alongside the way in which are sometimes victims of their very own boundless greed or lack of technical data, leaving the viewer with the candy uncertainty of whether or not the story is actual or just fiction.”
