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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.
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"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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