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Brazilian soccer star Adriano, who dazzled at Inter Milan and Flamengo with his goals and flamboyant personality, looks set to get a big screen movie bio, “The Emperor Adriano,” from Brazil’s Boutique Films and Paramount Pictures Brazil.
Behind “3%,” a Netflix non-English-language global breakout, São Paulo-based Boutique Filmes has acquired the rights to nonfiction biography “Adriano: My Greatest Fear,” written by journalist Ulisses Neto and published by Editora Planeta in 2024.
In the early stages of development, “The Emperor Adriano” is being shopped to investors by its producer Gustavo Mello, also a Boutique Filmes partner, at this week’s Cannes Film Festival. Paramount Pictures Brazil has boarded the project as a co-producer.
“The Emperor Adriano” inaugurates a new IP front at Boutque Filmes, which has already driven hard into literary adaptations, focused on Brazilian personalities.
An Adriano biopic is almost inevitable. Adriano, born in a Rio de Janeiro favela, symbolizes a rags to riches story better than most sports stars. A huge and a powerful striker boasting the technique and skills of much more lithe players, Adriano rated as one of Brazil’s biggest soccer players in its post-World Cup triumph of 2002, being seen as the successor of Ronaldo.
Fernando Feldman, Paramount, Gustavo Mello, Boutique Filmes, César Silva, general director of Paramount Pictures Brasil
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