"The New Pope" premieres in Spain this Friday on HBO


 

A series created and directed by Paolo Sorrentino and starring Jude Law, John Malkovich and Javier Cámara
10th January 2020

"The New Pope", a series created and directed by the Oscar® winning Paolo Sorrentino, starring Jude Law and John Malkovich, premieres in Spain on January 10th. The new episodes of “The New Pope” were directed by Paolo Sorrentino, who also wrote the script, together with Umberto Contarello and Stefano Bises. It’s Sorrentino’s second series set in the modern Papal court following on from “The Young Pope”.

In addition to the above-mentioned Jude Law and John Malkovich, both Oscar® nominees, and Javier Cámara, the series sees the return of actors who also featured in "The Young Pope" including Silvio Orlando, Cécile de France, Ludivine Sagnier and Maurizio Lombardi. New cast for the limited series includes Henry Goodman, Ulrich Thomsen, Mark Ivanir, Yuliya Snigir and Massimo Ghini. Actress Sharon Stone and singer, director and actor Marilyn Manson will guest star.
“The New Pope” is SKY-HBO-Canal+ original series, produced by Lorenzo Mieli and Mario Gianani for Wildside, a Fremantle production company, and co-produced by Haut et Court TV and THE MEDIAPRO STUDIO. Fremantle will be in charge of the world-wide distribution of the series.

Plot:
Pius XIII (Jude Law) is in a coma. After a series of unexpected and mysterious events, Secretary of State Voiello (Silvio Orlando) manages to get his man on the Papal throne Sir John Brannox (John Malkovich), a moderate English aristocrat, delightful and sophisticated, who takes the name John Paul III. The new Pope seems perfect, but he is also hiding things and displays a certain fragility. Everyone will soon find out that it won’t be easy to replace the charismatic Pius XIII: on his death bed, Lenny Belardo has become a saint and has thousands of loyal followers who idolize him widening the gap between the different factions. Meanwhile, the Church is hit by a series of scandals which risk changing the hierarchies irreversibly and by external threats to the Christian church. However, as always, in the Vatican nothing as it seems. Good and Evil go hand in hand and confrontation is inevitable.