Netflix has given the inexperienced gentle to a brand new three-episode installment of its Italian authentic “The Monster of Florence,” the serial killer collection directed by style specialist Stefano Sollima. The four-episode first chapter launched on the 2025 Venice Movie Competition earlier than dropping on the streaming big, the place it shortly rose to the highest of Netflix’s international non-English talking present rankings.
Filming is underway on what’s described as “a brand new chapter in Italy’s most well-known true crime case” that may “revisit the investigation into the Monster of Florence from a brand new perspective.”
The title of the true crime present is the nickname given to the suspected serial killer, who dedicated eight double murders over the course of 17 years from the late Nineteen Sixties to the mid-Nineteen Eighties, preying on {couples} parked in vehicles in remoted areas round Florence. “The Monster of Florence” all the time used the identical weapon: a .22 caliber Beretta.
The primary season of “Monster of Florence” delved into the preliminary line of the police investigation, often called the “Sardinian Path,” with every of the collection’ 4 episodes telling the story of a person who, at one level, investigators believed was the killer. This new chapter now expands the story surrounding the Florence Monster affair by specializing in the so-called “Snack Buddies” path. Explicit emphasis is positioned on the character of Pietro Pacciani, a Tuscan farm employee convicted in 1994 of seven of the eight double murders. His conviction was overturned on attraction in 1996, and he died in 1998 earlier than his retrial. Pacciani is described within the press launch as “a determine as scrutinized by the media as he’s shrouded in thriller” in what stays one of many longest and most controversial legal investigations in Italian historical past.
“We all the time imagined ‘The Monster of Florence’ as a collection of anthologies: impartial tales, every devoted to one of many totally different suspects within the collection of crimes that shocked Tuscany and Italy between the Nineteen Seventies and Nineteen Eighties, in what went down in historical past because the ‘Monster of Florence’ murders,” Sollima stated within the assertion, noting that the investigation lasted greater than 30 years.
“Having centered on the Sardinian suspects, this time we transfer ahead in time to handle maybe the best-known, most controversial and most debated chapter of all the incident: the story of Pietro Pacciani, convicted after which acquitted of the crimes, and his alleged accomplices, the well-known ‘Snack Buddies,’ because the press nicknamed them,” he added. This can be a authorized case that has divided Italian public opinion for many years, Sollima continued. “That is maybe additionally why Pacciani’s case stays essentially the most worrying: his guilt has by no means been confirmed, nevertheless it has by no means been utterly dominated out,” he concluded.
The restricted collection reunited Sollima with author Leonardo Fasoli and Italian cinematographer Paolo Carnera, with whom Sollima labored on “Gomorrah” and the cocaine trafficking drama “ZeroZeroZero.” Sollima has additionally directed Hollywood movies similar to “Sicario: Day of the Soldado” and “With out Regret”.
The brand new chapter within the “The Monster of Florence” saga is produced by Fremantle-based Wildside and Sollima-based AlterEgo. The producers are Sonia Rovai, Gina Gardini, Sollima and Lorenzo Mieli.