Before the coronavirus outbreak put Italy on lockdown in early March, writer-director Niccolò Ammaniti was in Palermo, shooting “Anna,” a series for Comcast-owned pay-TV operator Sky centered on a …
centered on a 13-year-old Sicilian girl who must contend with a viral contagion that kills off all adults on the island of Sicily.“We were shooting scenes in which we had adults saying, ‘We have to stick together. We have to go to the countryside, because cities are [virus] hotbeds.’ There were all these elements that resonated,” recounts Ammaniti, speaking from his Rome residence.
Ammaniti returned home immediately after the production shut down and hasn’t set foot outside his apartment since. But he’s quick to point out that “Anna,” which is based on his eponymous 2015 novel eerily set in 2020, is not centered on a pandemic but uses the event as a jumping-off point.“What I was interested in was describing a particularly extreme condition of childhood and adolescence, imagining that I could remove adults and have these kids inhabit an infantile world,” he says.
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