“Game of Thrones” star Richard Madden will once again be considered royalty, this time in Italy, as he has signed on to star alongside Dustin Hoffman in an eight-part drama series about the Medici family. The “Cinderella” prince will play the lead role of the enterprising son Cosimo de’ Medici, and Hoffman will portray family patriarch Giovanni de’ Medici. The series dramatizes the story of the family’s ascent from simple merchants to power brokers who sparked an economic and cultural revolution, and created a long list of powerful enemies in the process. Lux Vide and Frank Spotnitz‘s Big Light Productions are teaming.
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