‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Alum Jesse Williams To Lead & Produce Italian Series ‘Costiera’ For Prime Video

Zac Ntim
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Jesse Williams (Grey’s Anatomy, Only Murders In The Building) will produce and star in Prime Video’s Costiera, an Italian action-drama series filmed in English and directed by Emmy award winner Adam Bernstein (Breaking Bad, Fargo). The series is currently in production.

Williams will play Daniel De Luca, a half-Italian former U.S. marine who returns to Italy, the land of his childhood, as a fixer in one of the world’s most luxurious hotels on the spectacular Positano coastline. Synopsis reads: “Shortly after Daniel, or DD as everybody knows him, starts working at the hotel, one of the owner’s daughters disappears. He must do whatever it takes to find her and bring her home while still solving the ever-changing problems of the exclusive hotel guests.”

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Based on an idea by Luca Bernabei, written by Elena Bucaccio, Matthew Parkhill, and Francesco Arlanch, the series is co-produced by Amazon MGM Studios and Luca Bernabei for Fremantle’s Lux Vide. Under what the companies have described as a “highly innovative deal structure,” Amazon holds on to full exclusive rights in Italy, France, Spain, and Portugal. Fremantle will handle global sales in all other territories.

The show is one of the biggest being sold by Fremantle this week at the London TV Screenings.

“It’s an amazing opportunity for me to work with Jesse Williams on Costiera. I’ve always admired his work – both on stage and screen, and he’s the first actor that came to my mind for the role of Daniel De Luca,” said Bernstein. “Jesse provides a perfect combination of intelligence, charisma, and humor, and we’re incredibly lucky to have him at the center of our show.’’

Other original Italian productions in the Prime Video catalog include No Activity – Niente da segnalare, Elf Me, Gigolò per caso, and Everybody Loves Diamonds. Lux Vide’s credits include Medici, Leonardo, and Devils, starring Patrick Dempsey.

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