Netflix Greenlights New 'Monster of Florence' Chapter
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- Netflix greenlit a new three-episode installment of "The Monster of Florence" directed by Stefano Sollima, expanding the Italian true crime anthology with a second chapter built as a standalone story around a different investigative lead.
- The first four-episode chapter debuted from the 2025 Venice Film Festival and climbed to the top of Netflix's global non-English-language shows chart, establishing a proven audience for the follow-up.
- The new installment will explore the 'Snack Buddies' lead, centering on Pietro Pacciani — a Tuscan farm worker convicted in 1994 for seven of the eight double murders, whose conviction was overturned on appeal in 1996; he died in 1998 before his retrial.
- The original Monster of Florence case involved eight double murders over 17 years from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s, with a lone gunman using a .22 caliber Beretta to kill couples parked in secluded spots around Florence.
- Sollima framed the series as an anthology where each chapter profiles a different suspect, noting Pacciani's case 'remains the most disturbing' because 'guilt has never been proven, but also never completely ruled out.'
- The new chapter reunites Sollima with writer Leonardo Fasoli and cinematographer Paolo Carnera — both collaborators on "Gomorrah" and "ZeroZeroZero" — and is produced by Wildside (a Fremantle company) alongside Sollima's AlterEgo shingle.
Why it matters: Netflix is reinvesting in a true crime property that already topped its global non-English chart by tackling the case's most legally and ethically fraught chapter — Pacciani, whose guilt was never definitively established — turning an unresolved Italian investigation into a prestige anthology entry with built-in international demand.
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