Commissioner Montalbano, who could go on without Luca Zingaretti

Can a fiction like Commissioner Montalbano do without Luca Zingaretti, which for twenty years has lent its face to the king of Rai1 ratings? According to the director of Rai Fiction Maria Pia Ammirati, the answer could be yes. Although Zingaretti has repeatedly expressed strong doubts about a possible continuation of the series, Ammirati told the monthly TV, that the product is too iconic and too precious not to follow it up, even without Zingaretti.

“To date Luca Zingaretti does not want to continue. We are however reasoning with Palomar on a hypothesis of seriality, even without Zingaretti, because this series is too much loved by the public to give it up“, Revealed, in fact, the director of Rai Fiction, confirming the rumors about a possible future of Montabano without the one who played him for over twenty years and that for the public is now a direct continuation of the character created by the pen of Camilleri . On paper, the plan is to make two more episodes of Montalbano after The Catalanotti method: the first is taken from Riccardino, a novel released posthumously in 2020, and the second is based on The Alcyon cook, released in 2019.

«For me it was a wonderful professional and human adventure. Now it seems to me finished “, Zingaretti said recently, discouraging his return as Montalbano. “The author no longer writes and so does my friend the director, Alberto Sironi, sadly he is gone. Does it make sense to end the saga by filming the last two unpublished novels also as a sign of respect towards them? Or is it their very lack that suggests respectful silence? I lean towards the second hypothesis ». What is certain is that we would never want to be in the role of the actor who will accept to collect the legacy of Zingaretti by meeting the predictable criticisms of the public.