And Rio is the actual location of the story, a truly beautiful and violent city. I like working in real locations, with the dirt, the heat, everything that contributes to my actors’ performances and to the look of the series. I’d say ‘Dom’ is a production of a size never done before in Brazil, especially in production value. It’s reported that the production was quite complex, with 170 locations, hundreds of actors and VFX scenes? He knew the series was going to be produced for Amazon Prime Video. Two months later, he died, at the end of 2018. He sent me a lot of text messages from the hospital, many of which became the voiceovers we use in the series. He met with us once in the series’ writers’ room, and shortly after that first meeting, was hospitalized. Dying of an addiction just like his son, only his was tobacco. That’s when he told me he had been suffering from lung cancer. And my feeling was that, at that moment, he started saying farewell to life. So, when I decided to take up the project again and told him it was going to happen, he said he felt his mission in life was finally accomplished. Victor’s dream was to see his story with his son told in a film, from a sensitive perspective, not by bloody tabloids. In a serialized narrative, we’d have the opportunity and the time to explore several of these characters’ layers and reveal many different facets, so that the public could grasp their dualities. And when I read the book that Lomba took eight years to write, I realized there were too many stories there to fit in a single film. As well as a father-son drama, the narrative encompassed four decades of portraying how cocaine trafficking turned Rio de Janeiro into the city it is today. And Tony saw that there was a book there to be written, so he endured. That’s when I invited Tony Bellotto to join the project and write a film script with me. They said he was impossible to work with. I hired two screenwriters to do a series of interviews with Victor and get the depth of the story, but both quit after a few meetings with him. I’m not moved by action films in particular: What I saw behind Victor and Pedro’s story was a dramatic and, at the same time, beautiful father-and-son relationship.ĭid only writer Tony Bellotto have the patience to work with him? When did you realize that the movie idea had to become a series? Nevertheless, I recognized an incredible true story. He was angry with society, the press, the world. Our first conversation was very difficult. At that time he was still very tormented by the loss of his son. Victor came looking for me 12 years ago at Conspiração. What was your first impression upon meeting Victor Lomba? In an exclusive interview with Variety, Silveira offered some insights on the production: Said Malu Miranda, head of Brazilian Originals for Amazon Studios: “Amazon has been off to a really great start after launching Prime in Brazil in September of 2019 and in less than 18 months we already announced 11 different series, we are filming many of these simultaneously between Brazil and Uruguay.” We follow him through the years as he grows more disillusioned with the perpetual war and watches in despair as his own son, Pedro, becomes a cocaine addict as well as one of the most wanted criminals in Rio de Janeiro, the titular Dom. The eight hour series is based on the true story of Victor Lomba who was a young scuba diver when, by a twist of fate, became a military intelligence agent and made the war on drugs his life’s work. Produced by Brazil’s multi-Emmy nominated powerhouse indie, Conspiracao, with creator Breno Silveira (“Two Sons of Francisco”) as showrunner, “Dom” marks a significant play in the region for Amazon Prime for its scale, ambition and scope. The epic crime drama is the first original Brazilian series that Amazon is launching worldwide in more than 240 countries and territories. Amazon Prime Video is bowing its first original Brazilian drama series, “Dom,” on June 4 as it continues to rev up production in the region.
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