Sea Out, Hbo is for the American remake
Unstoppable success Sea out on RaiPlay: in February they amounted to 105 million views generated by the title on the public service video on demand platform. The rest of the world is also beginning to observe the phenomenon with interest Sea Out. The series – distributed internationally by Beta Film – has already landed, with the title of ‘The Sea Beyond’, in various foreign countries such as Germany, where it appears in the Disney + catalog.
Among the projects in the works abroad is the request for an adaptation “from the United States, for which (Rai) is in negotiations”: the director of Rai Fiction Maria Pia Ammirati revealed it to Ansa last month. In a more recent interview with The Republic taken from Adkronos, Ammirati reveals that Hbo is the American broadcaster interested in making the US remake of Mare Fuori, the title of which should be The Sea Beyond.
If the series were to become a reality, it would be the second Rai project to make the leap overseas in less than a year. The news that the American broadcaster Fox has commissioned the remake of stars and stripes dates back to the last few weeks Doc – In your hands with a female protagonist instead of the character played by Luca Argentero.
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As reported last February by Variety – the bible of global entertainment -, France and Spain are also thinking about two local adaptations of sea out, and they would already be in talks with Beta Film regarding the acquisition of the format.
Set at the Istituto di Pena Minorile in Naples, the TV series tells the story of underage prisoners who find themselves having to serve their prison sentence. Each of them is characterized by a different experience, but all are united by a suffering that led them – in the course of their young lives – to make mistakes bigger than them. There are those who had no other choice, and those who wanted a life of crime instead. Over the course of three seasons – the fourth has already been confirmed – the protagonists mature and understand the kind of person they want to become when they grow up.
The cast of the series includes Carolina Crescentini, Carmine Recano, Lucrezia Guidone, Nicolas Maupas, Massimiliano Caiazzo, Giacomo Giorgio, Vincenzo Ferrera, Antonio De Matteo, Ar Tem, Domenico Cuomo, Serena De Ferrari, Matteo Paolillo, Antonio Orefice, Nicolò Galasso, Serena Codato, Clotilde Esposito, Antonio D’Aquino, Anna Ammirati, Antonio De Matteo, Giovanna Sannino, Kyshan Wilson, Alessandro Orrei, Maria Esposito, Giuseppe Tantillo, Francesco Panarella, Giuseppe Pirozzi, Clara Soccini, Salahudin Tijani Imrana, and with Valentina Romani. The series – born from an idea by Cristiana Farina, and written by the latter with Maurizio Careddu – is a Rai Fiction and Picomedia co-production. The latter is the company that made it Everything asks for salvation for Netflix. Ivan Silvestrini is directing the twelve episodes that make up the third season.
