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Showtime’s ‘The Vatican’ Pilot Appoints Bruno Ganz Its Pope

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Friday March 15, 2013 @ 12:32pm PDTTags: Bruno Ganz, Showtime, The Vatican

He played a fallen Angel in Wim Wenders’ Wings Of Desire and now Bruno Ganz will play the Pope in Showtime’s drama pilot The Vatican. The Swiss-born actor, who also played Adolf Hitler in 2004′s Downfall, will take on the Holy garments as the soft-spoken, fictional Sixtus VI in the pilot, from Paul Attanasio and Ridley Scott. Ganz takes on his Papal role just two days after the real new Pope Francis I was elected and joins Pushing Daisies‘ Anna Friel and Kyle Chandler in the thriller about spirituality, power and politics set against the modern-day political machinations within the Catholic Church. Chandler plays the progressive New York Cardinal Thomas Duffy, and Friel plays his very secular, hard-living younger sister. Matthew Goode as Papal Secretary Bernd Koch and Sebastian Koch as Cardinal Marco Malerba also star in the drama, which begins production in April. Sony Pictures TV is producing with Scott Free and Showtime.

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Anna Friel To Co-Star In Showtime Pilot ‘The Vatican’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday March 1, 2013 @ 1:15pm PSTTags: Showtime, The Vatican
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Anna FrielPushing Daisies‘ Anna Friel is eyeing a return to American television with a co-starring role opposite Kyle Chandler in The Vatican, Showtime‘s high-profile drama pilot from Paul Attanasio and Ridley Scott. Said to evoke … Read More »

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Showtime Greenlights Vatican Drama Pilot From Paul Attanasio, Ridley Scott To Direct

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday December 20, 2012 @ 3:51pm PSTTags: Big Deals TV, Paul Attanasio, Ridley Scott, The Vatican
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Paul AttanasioIn Showtime’s first pilot order for 2013, the pay cable network has greenlighted a high-profile drama from Oscar nominees Paul Attanasio and Ridley Scott. Titled The … Read More »

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