Brazilian soccer star Adriano, who dazzled at Inter Milan and Flamengo along with his targets and flamboyant character, seems set to get a giant display screen film bio, “The Emperor Adriano,” from Brazil’s Boutique Movies and Paramount Pictures Brazil.
Behind “3%,” a Netflix non-English-language world breakout, São Paulo-based Boutique Filmes has acquired the rights to nonfiction biography “Adriano: My Greatest Fear,” written by journalist Ulisses Neto and printed by Editora Planeta in 2024.
Within the early levels of growth, “The Emperor Adriano” is being shopped to buyers by its producer Gustavo Mello, additionally a Boutique Filmes companion, at this week’s Cannes Film Festival. Paramount Photos Brazil has boarded the mission as a co-producer.
“The Emperor Adriano” inaugurates a brand new IP entrance at Boutque Filmes, which has already pushed arduous into literary diversifications, targeted on Brazilian personalities.
An Adriano biopic is nearly inevitable. Adriano, born in a Rio de Janeiro favela, symbolizes a rags to riches story higher than most sports activities stars. An enormous and a strong striker boasting the approach and abilities of rather more lithe gamers, Adriano rated as one in all Brazil’s largest soccer gamers in its post-World Cup triumph of 2002, being seen because the successor of Ronaldo.
Fernando Feldman, Paramount, Gustavo Mello, Boutique Filmes, César Silva, normal director of Paramount Photos Brasil
