Canal+ will launch prime time broadcasting of the Django series (10 x 45') on February 13 at the rate of two episodes every Monday, the channel announced on Tuesday, January 24. Carried by actor Matthias Schoenaerts, this fiction filmed in English is produced by the French companies Atlantique Productions (Mediawan) and the Italian companies Cattleya (ITV Studios), in collaboration with the German company Odeon Fiction and Studiocanal, for Canal+ and Sky.
Created and written by Leonardo Fasoli and Maddalena Ravagli, and co-written with Francesco Cenni, Michele Pellegrini and Max Hurwitz, the series, supposedly set in the American West in the 1860s-1870s, claims a new vision of the western with a contemporary and psychological approach. Haunted by the murder of his family eight years earlier, Django continues to search for his daughter Sarah (Lisa Vicari), whom he finds in New Babylon, a city of outcasts, made up of men and women from all backgrounds she created with John (Nicholas Pinnock), her fiancé. But Sarah, now an adult, asks Django to leave, fearing that his presence will endanger the town that adopted her.
This series, freely adapted from the western of the same title by Sergio Corbucci, has the double label “Canal+ Créationoriginale” and “Sky Original.” The cast also includes Swedish actress Noomi Rapace (Prometheus, Sherlock Holmes), the British Jyuddah Jaymes (Criminal: UK) and Eric Kole (Fifty Pence) and the German actor Benny Opoku-Arthur (Alexanderplatz) .