Commissario Ricciardi is going to be a tv series, too: the actor and producer Riccardo Scamarcio has, with actress and partner Valeria Golino, acquired tv rights for a series based on the character created by Maurizio de Giovanni.
I have to confess Scamarcio is nothing like the image I had in my mind of the Commissario, but this is often the case when you read a book and later see a visual production. The more I think about it however, the more convinced I become of the actor. I am of course delighted, as is the author, of the continued success the books and the character are having in Italy and abroad and am confident the team will do a good job of putting the Commissario onto the screen.
Neither the author nor the producer feel there will be a competition with the very successful Commissario Montalbano, created by Andrea Camilleri, which is the protagonist of two television series. The latest, being broadcast currently in Italy, shows the early career of the Commissario, who is interpreted by Michele Riondino.
An Italian newspaper has announced the news here.
