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On Monday, January 13, Netflix announced an official premiere date for The Leopard, a new six-part miniseries based on Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s eponymous 1958 novel.
Following the fictional Don Fabrizio Corbera, Prince of Salina, and his aristocratic family amid the social turmoil of 19th-century Sicily, The Leopard will reportedly arrive on the streamer on March 5—nearly 62 years after Luchino Visconti’s iconc adaptation of the same material debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in 1963.
The cast of the series includes Kim Rossi Stuart, Saul Nanni, Deva Cassel, and Benedetta Porcaroli, and will be helmed by a trio of directors: Tom Shankland, Giuseppe Capotondi, and Laura Luchetti. Below, everything else you need to know about The Leopard.
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What is the plot of Netflix’s The Leopard?
At the heart of the series is Don Fabrizio Corbera (Kim Rossi Stuart), the prince of Salina, who leads a life steeped in beauty and privilege. But when the unification of Italy threatens to dismantle the Sicilian aristocracy, Fabrizio sets out to protect his lineage—including by arranging a marriage between the wealthy and beautiful Angelica (Deva Cassel) to his nephew Tancredi (Saul Nanni), at the risk of breaking the heart of Fabrizio’s beloved daughter Concetta (Benedetta Porcaroli).
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Who is in the cast of Netflix’s The Leopard?
Kim Rossi Stuart stars as Don Fabrizio Corbera, the Prince of Salina (played by Burt Lancaster in Visconti’s film); Saul Nanni will play the charming Tancredi (previously Alain Delon); Deva Cassel, daughter of Vincent and Monica Bellucci, will play Angelica (inheriting the role from Claudia Cardinale); and Benedetta Porcaroli will play Concetta (in a much expanded role from the one once played by Lucilla Morlacchi).
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What are some of The Leopard’s major themes?
Staying true to the novel, the miniseries version of The Leopard will follow Fabrizio, a disenchanted observer of the progressive and inescapable decline of the Siciliant aristocracy as the bourgeoisie gain power and influence. Against the backdrop of Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi’s Expedition of the Thousand and the sunset of Bourbon rule, Sicily, destined to be annexed by the Kingdom of Sardinia, faced the assumption of an entirely new social and cultural framework. Hence, one of the novel’s most famous lines, delivered from Tancredi to Prince Fabrizio: “If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.”
The series will follow several narrative threads, as Tinny Andreatta, vice president for Italian content at Netflix, has said. “At first glance, it is a drama that [describes], as the Prince of Salina says, the universal condition of those who belong to ‘a disgraced generation, straddling the old times and the new, and who are uncomfortable in both,’ yet it is also [about an] intimate affair that binds the great patriarch of this family and his beloved daughter. It’s a current story, despite being written almost 70 years ago. In the soul of this work, there is an extraordinary humanity and universality, a specific and authentic identity that, precisely because it is unique, can reach everyone.”
When will The Leopard be released on Netflix?
The Leopard will be released on Netflix on March 5, 2025, according to a new poster.