Netflix has ordered Kathleen Jordan’s period soap drama “The Decameron” with Jenji Kohan executive producing under her overall deal with the streamer.
The eight episode drama takes place in 1348, as the Black Death strikes hard in the city of Florence. A handful of nobles are invited to retreat with their servants to a grand villa in the Italian countryside and wait out the pestilence with a lavish holiday. But as social rules wear thin, what starts as a wine-soaked sex romp in the hills of Tuscany descends into an all out scramble for survival.
Jordan (“Teenage Bounty Hunters”) will serve as creator, showrunner, and executive producer on the series. Kohan executive producers along with Blake McCormick and Tara Herrmann on behalf of Tilted Productions. Mike Uppendahl will executive produce and direct.
“Kathleen Jordan is the real freakin’ deal. I am so excited and grateful that I get to work...
The eight episode drama takes place in 1348, as the Black Death strikes hard in the city of Florence. A handful of nobles are invited to retreat with their servants to a grand villa in the Italian countryside and wait out the pestilence with a lavish holiday. But as social rules wear thin, what starts as a wine-soaked sex romp in the hills of Tuscany descends into an all out scramble for survival.
Jordan (“Teenage Bounty Hunters”) will serve as creator, showrunner, and executive producer on the series. Kohan executive producers along with Blake McCormick and Tara Herrmann on behalf of Tilted Productions. Mike Uppendahl will executive produce and direct.
“Kathleen Jordan is the real freakin’ deal. I am so excited and grateful that I get to work...
- 8/18/2022
- by BreAnna Bell
- Variety Film + TV
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