Set Photos from HBO Mini-Series The Young Pope, Starring Jude Law

Photos of Jude Law on The Young Pope Set

Production on the HBO mini-series “The Young Pope” is underway and we’ve got the first photos from the Rome set of the film. Featuring star Jude Law, you can check out the photos below!

Law is joined by Diane Keaton for the mini-series, an eight-episode drama from Paolo Sorrentino, director of the Academy Award-winning film The Great Beauty. “The Young Pope” tells the controversial story of the beginning of PIUS XIII’s Pontificate (Law). Born Lenny Belardo, he is a complex and conflicted character, so conservative in his choices as to border on obscurantism, yet full of compassion towards the weak and poor. He is a man of great power who is stubbornly resistant to the Vatican courtiers, unconcerned with the implications to his authority.

During the series, Belardo will face losing those closest to him and the constant fear of being abandoned, even by his God. He is, however, not afraid of undertaking the millennial mission of defending that same God and the world representing Him.

Describing the series, Paolo Sorrentino said, “The clear signs of God’s existence. The clear signs of God’s absence. How faith can be searched for and lost. The greatness of holiness, so great as to be unbearable when you are fighting temptations and when all you can do is to yield to them. The inner struggle between the huge responsibility of the Head of the Catholic Church and the miseries of the simple man that fate (or the Holy Spirit) chose as Pontiff. Finally, how to handle and manipulate power in a state whose dogma and moral imperative is the renunciation of power and selfless love towards one’s neighbour. That is what ‘The Young Pope’ is about.”

The series is being produced by Wildside, and co-produced by Haut et Court TV and MEDIAPRO. Executive producers for Wildside are Lorenzo Mieli and Mario Gianani together with John Lyons. Executive producers for Haut et Court TV are Caroline Benjo, Carole Scotta and Simon Arnal. “The Young Pope” is a major co-production for HBO and the newly-merged Sky.

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