Starting off The New Pope: What is it about the unusual series about Vatican that caught my interest?

If you can't seem to make sense of the following trailer, that's okay. We've compiled the most important facts about the predecessor series, the continuation, its author and director as well as the two main actors.

The New Pope TV series starts on February 20th, 2020 and is only available on Sky in Germany. To give you a first impression of the series, you can find the official trailer here.

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Nein, ungewöhnlich war vor allem, dass der Papst nicht auf Einfluss verzichten wollte und die Gesellschaft komplett umgestaltete.

To give you a little glimpse into the surreal images The Young Pope plays with, the series begins with Jude Law emerging from a mountain of sleeping babies and then giving his inaugural speech to his faith community in which he discusses Joy Masturbation. Obviously this is only a dream, but the viewer is already prepared for how this will play out from the very beginning.

It makes sense to approach the depiction of a strange location like Vatican City, where religion, politics, and bureaucracy intersect. You probably don't know about a show called "The Young Pope," which is currently airing on Sky.

Pope Pius XIII, who goes by the name Lenny, is the first American pope. Many high church officials were surprised when he was elected. He has to figure out his new role and find his bearings at the Vatican first.

Lenny has a pretty good idea of how his very strict and conservative regime will look in the future. His unorthodox approach to holding this high office is largely taking his subordinates' skepticism into account, but they're quickly starting to plot intrigues to remove the willful pope from power. However, Pope Pius XIII gathers old friends for consultation and is not afraid to resort to unlovely methods to strengthen his position.

It seems that the most obvious candidate is Sir John Brannox (John Malkovich). An English theologian who became well-known in his youth for reading and discussing the theological text "The Middle Way."

This means, among other things, a lavish costume design and elaborate exterior and interior shots. The series will remain faithful to Sorrentino's idiosyncratic staging style while also providing substantive and interesting content.

In 1998, he started also directing his first short films. For his debut feature film, the tragedy comedy "L?uomo im più" he was awarded with the Italian Film Prize Nastro d?Argento as best new director.

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The following drama "Eternal Youth" was not able to achieve similar successes, but at least with a star-studded cast of two of acting legends Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel it was successful. Sorrentino had already worked on a police series called "La Squadra" in 2000, but "The Young Pope" and the sequel "The New Pope" represent his first completely written and staged productions.

Laws career received a great deal of help in 1997, for example: that year he played alongside Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman in the Science-Fiction drama "Gattaca"; and Clint Eastwood knocked on his door and hired him to play opposite John Cusack and Kevin Spacey in his drama "Mitternacht im Garten von Gut und Böse".

Law's first Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Role was for his performance as Dickie Greenleaf in the Patricia Highsmith adaptation "The Talented Mr. Ripley" directed by now deceased director Anthony Minghella. Here, Law showed particularly that he can easily maintain his status within a star-studded cast consisting of high-quality actors such as Matt Damon, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Cate Blanchett and Gwyneth Paltrow.

Many years later, with a wealth of interesting roles and collaborations with some of the best directors in the world, Law seemed to be calmly prepared for anything: Steven Spielberg cast him as a love droid in "A.I. - Artificial Intelligence"; for Sam Mendes, he played a professional killer in "Road to Perdition" set in the 1930s in the United States; for legendary director Mike Nichols, he teamed up with Julia Roberts, Natalie Portman and Clive Owen in an emotionally charged modern relationship drama.

Here you can be simultaneously charming and aggressive anti-hero. One of his so far most interesting roles.

On the boards that mean the world to him, he celebrated his biggest success with his portrayal of Biff Lohman in the drama "Death of a Handlungsreisender". A role he reprised for the television adaptation of CBS' station that aired it. Not only did he act alongside actor Dustin Hoffman, but he also received an Emmy award in 1986.

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War of the Worlds, which took a young Christian Bale under its wing. His portrayal as dangerous intrigant Vicomte de Valmont in drama "Gefährliche Liebschaften" was met with criticism, but nonetheless made him more accessible to a wider audience.

There's also absurd ging es in the comedy "Burn After Reading - Who burns their fingers here?" by the Coen brothers. Here, he poses a fired desk jockey of the CIA who wants to get back at his former employer with his insightful personal memoirs. However, he is thwarted by very unsophisticated extortionists.

Hey." and "Transformers 3: The Dark Side of the Moon" even managed to cover the action genre successfully. A resume that prepares him well for the unusual challenge name-wise called "The New Pope."

Es ist schwer in Worte zu fassen, was genau Du von "The New Pope" erwarten kannst. Aber genau das ist der Punkt: Schon die Vorgängerstaffel stellte eine Wundertüte dar, in der jede Episode mit neuen Überraschungen aufwartete. Deswegen sollten die Zuschauer am besten mit dem Unerwarteten rechnen und vor allem die Vorgängerstaffel ansehen, - falls das noch nicht geschehen ist - um ein Gefühl für die spezielle Gangart der Serie zu entwickeln.