Vladimir Putin

Producer Alexander Rodnyansky will shoot a series about Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to Variety, the script will be based on the book “The Whole Kremlin’s Army” by Mikhail Zygar, the former editor-in-chief of the Dozhd TV channel. The best-selling book of 2015 is based on a series of interviews with people close to Putin.

A new project by Leviathan producer Rodnyansky will tell you how, as a former KGB officer, Putin became one of the world’s most influential politicians, showing the way to power, and how this, among other things, led to what is happening now. Location in Ukraine. According to Rodnyansky, it will be “a real, spooky story about how a man who changed the world got the opportunity to do it.” The series will also show some of his partners, but Putin himself will be at the center of the story.

Rodnyansky said that the future project will be in the style of the House of Cards series.

– Variety quotes Rodnyansky.

The series will be produced by Rodnyansky’s Los Angeles-based AR Content. The cast of the series is not yet known.

Alexander Rodnyansky, whose son is an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, harshly condemned Russia’s military special operation in Ukraine. He published a series of posts in support of Ukraine on social networks, after which the producer was offered to “exclude Russia from the cultural agenda.” After the start of military special operations, the filmmaker left Russia and announced that he plans to live in Europe.

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