Rome is the next big thing. Not content with filling our TV screens, the city – albeit one from a few centuries after Caesar and co - will form the basis for Neil Jordan’s next film.
He’s recruited Colin Farrell and Scarlett Johansson for Borgia, which chronicles the power struggles of the most powerful family in 15th Century Rome.
Jordan has been trying to make the film for years, getting achingly close in 2002 with Ewan McGregor and Christina Ricci starring.
Expect betrayal, murder and politics as the conflicted family battles to see who will replace the Pope, who dies as the story opens. Johansson will play Lucrezia Borgia, a woman struggling to balance obligation and the search for love. Farrell’s signed up as Cesare, her crafty brother.
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