But it seems nobody has told Bean that he’s starring in a delirious romp. As head of the Medicis’s sworn rivals, the villainous Pazzi family, he is essentially playing Evil Ned Stark. The obligatory Game of Thrones callback is instead courtesy of Sean Bean. Godfather-esque Giovanni de' Medici – Dustin Hoffman last time out – has long since shuffled off this coil, as has (dry your eyes Bodyguard devotees) chiseled Cosimo. Medici: The Magnificent is set decades later, with Medici hegemony over Florence now firmly established. It is a sequel to 2016’s Medici: Masters of Florence, a surprise blockbuster for Netflix that went out of its way to woo GoT fans by casting a post- Red Wedding, pre- Bodyguard Richard Madden as an a-historically hunky Cosimo de' Medici. Swords twirl, as do moustaches, in this riotously cheesy tale of courtly intrigue in 15th century Florence. And there is indeed a whiff of HBO’s bums-and-dragons saga in Medici: the Magnificent, a collaboration between Netflix and Italian production house Luxe Vide. The back-stabbing, bed-hopping antics of Renaissance Italy’s ruling dynasties have an obvious appeal in the era of Game of Thrones.
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