By “The White Lotus” second season breakout, actor and playwright Will Sharpe, is set to play composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in a new TV series adaptation of Peter Shaffer’s 1979 play “Amadeus”.
Sky is behind the TV series that will see him re-teaming with writer and producer Joe Barton with whom he previously teamed on the 2019 mini-series “Giri/Haji” in which Sharpe’s role as a London rent boy scored much acclaim.
The series is dubbed a “fresh, intimate, irreverent” take on the material – expanding to explore the mythic rivalry in 18th century Vienna between a young Mozart and court composer Antonio Salieri, along with the involvement of the fiery Constanze Weber, in events that will ultimately define their legacies.
Julian Farino and Alice Seabright will direct the series. It comes nearly forty years after filmmaker Milos Forman adapted the script into the highly acclaimed 1984 feature which swept the Oscars and won Best Picture and a Best Actor nod for Sharpe’s “White Lotus” co-star F. Murray Abraham as Salieri.
Sharpe has roles in upcoming films like Jesse Eisenberg’s “A Real Pain” and Audrey Diwan’s reimagining of “Emmanuelle” co-starring Naomi Watts, and a role in Netflix’s limited series “Too Much”. Barton has the series “Black Doves” and the film “The Union” both on the way at Netflix.
Shaffer’s play continues to be performed to this day, most recently a version played at the Sydney Opera House with Michael Sheen starring as Salieri after playing Mozart (opposite David Suchet as Salieri) in a UK production 25 years earlier.
Source: Sky
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