Italian director Saverio Costanzo is set to co-write and direct a TV series based on Italian author Elena Ferrante’s the Neapolitan Quartet. The 32-part series (!!) will focus on the pseudonymous author’s four novels, “My Brilliant Friend” “The Story of a New Name,” “Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay,” and “The Story of the Lost Child.”

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Set against Italian milieu, the coming-of-age series follows the lifelong friendship between two women as they struggle to overcome poverty and abuse to make a life of their own.

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