The Italian producer Luca Barbareschi unveils the bioseries dedicated to the founder of Bank Of America AP Giannini

The Italian-Uruguayan producer and actor Luca Barbareschi Develop a six-part series about the life of Bank of America founder and one of Hollywood’s first financiers, Amadeo Peter Giannini.

Barbareschi told Italian news agency Ansa that he is producing the series under his Rome-based Eliseo Fiction brand. According to him, Rai has recently entered the project and negotiations are underway with an American partner.

The cast has yet to be announced, but Barbareschi said the goal was to make the series international appeal. The series will be shot in Italy and the United States, with a start date scheduled for the end of 2023, starting in 2024.

Meanwhile, Barbaresque is wrapping up post-production on Roman Polanski’s upcoming black comedy. Building. Barbaresque is an executive producer on the feature film, having co-produced Polanski’s latest film. officer and spy. It revealed that the Italian distributor 01 had planned a launch in mid-January 2023 in Italy.

Born in San Jose, California in 1870 to Italian parents from Genoa, Giannini made a fortune in the wholesale fruit and vegetable trade before moving into finance, initially working with Italian immigrants.

Beginning in 1909 he acquired banks throughout California, which he grouped under the banner of the Bank of Italy. It soon grew out of state and was renamed Bank of America in 1930.

Giannini was also one of Hollywood’s first backers, lending Columbia Pictures in 1920 to save Walt Disney. Snow White it went over budget and fell short of movies like not taken, King Kong Y It is a wonderful life.

Barbareschi said he first became interested in the pioneering banker while researching for a 2013 TV movie. Adriano Olivetti: The strength of a dream, This led him to study other iconic figures in the history of industry and finance.

He then applied to the AP Giannini Foundation of California, which granted him the rights to tell the story.