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01.08.2022 / 16:43
Netflix Brazil Banner Series ‘Senna’ Sets Vicente Amorim as Director
John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent“Senna,” Netflix’s biggest and most ambitious series ever in Latin America, now has a director, seasoned Brazilian film-TV action thriller director Vicente Amorim, whose credits include “Good” with Viggo Mortensen and “Yakuza Princess,” with Japanese American singer Masumi and Jonathan Rhys Meyers.Portraying the life of Formula One racing genius Ayrton Senna,“Senna,” produced for Netflix Brazil by Sao Paulo-based Gullane in partnership with the Senna family, is now in prep.The eight-episode fiction miniseries will plumb “the intimacy of the man who became a national hero and conquered the world,” Netflix Brazil announced on Monday.It looks set to be the biggest play ever by Netflix for one of its biggest markets anywhere in international. In January 2021, Netflix was reported to have already run up 19 million household accounts in Brazil, nearly as many as the streamer’s then 25.49 million for the whole of Asia.