Antonio Banderas, a TV series on the Monster of Florence

A well-known face, to retrace one of the most controversial news cases in recent history. Antonio Banderas, whose last television role dates back to 2018, the year of Genius, was hired as the lead and producer of The Monster of Florence, television miniseries based on the homonymous volume of Mario speci. The journalist, whose face and voice Banderas will be, followed the investigations of the police, written about the double murders that, between 1974 and 1985, shocked the Tuscan province.

But, faced with the procedural truth, he decided not to stop.

Mario Spezi, court reporter for the newspaper The nation, followed his own line of investigation and, together with the American Douglas Preston, co-author of the investigation book, came to establish another truth. In The Monster of Florence: A true story, published in Italy under the title of Rolling hills of blood, Spezi and Preston hypothesized that a man attributable to the Sardinian track could be hiding behind the Monster of Florence. This conclusion led to an arrest for Spezi for misdirection and slander. The journalist, who died in Florence in 2016, was imprisoned for twenty-three days before the Court of Cassation dropped all charges against him.

“The book, and the series based on it, tell the true story of our search – and identification – of the killer and our frightening interview with him. In a bizarre twist, Mario and I were sucked into heartbreaking judicial revenge, our phones intercepted, followed and threatened by the police, accused of participating in satanic rituals – which culminated in Mario’s arrest and accusation of being the Monster. of Florence himself, ”said Preston, whose book will be adapted from Nikolaj Arcel e Anders Thomas Jensen.