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The eight-part series follows characters from
Mexican drug cartels, a Calabrian organized crime group as well
as the middlemen all seeking a cut of the lucrative cocaine
market.
Members of the series' cast, crew and Saviano premiered the
first two episodes at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday, in
which viewers are taken from the Calabrian hills to Monterrey
and New Orleans.
"The series is a truly international story...You have the
American storyline, you have the Mexican storyline, you have the
Italian storyline, it takes us all across the world," actor Dane
DeHaan told Reuters.
"It shows every aspect of the drug trafficking, every story and
you really get to know these people personally and they become
personal tales, wrapped up in the facts of how all this cocaine
gets around the world."
The series, which also stars "The Usual Suspects" actor Gabriel
Byrne and Andrea Riseborough of "W.E." and "Black Mirror" fame,
begins with a huge order of cocaine being placed in Italy.
"We tell the story of something that I saw and experienced
myself making the series...which is that all of us, even if you,
personally, don't use it...you're not involved in any illegal
activity that comes with cocaine, your life is still affected by
it," director and series co-creator Stefano Sollima said.
"What you wear, your bank, or any firm or company that is
absolutely legally sound might have started out its activity
with money recycled from drug trafficking."
Saviano, 39, shot to fame with his 2006 book "Gomorrah" about
the mafia in Naples. Since its publication, he has lived under
police protection.
In "ZeroZeroZero", which was released in 2016 and whose name
comes from a nickname for pure cocaine, he delves into the
global cocaine trade, looking at its reach in the global economy
and seeing it as a commodity as potent as oil.
"Like petrol fuels motors, cocaine is the petrol of human
bodies," he told Reuters.
"With 5,000 (euros) invested in cocaine, you can be a
millionaire...This turns cocaine into Aladdin's lamp for
everyone but the catch is only few manage to get it and that is
the reason they are so ready to kill."
(Reporting by Hanna Rantala; Additional reporting by
Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Editing by Frances Kerry)
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