‘Gomorrah — The Origins’ Trailer: ’70s-Set Prequel Series Shows the Rise of Mobster Pietro Savastano (EXCLUSIVE)

Sky has released a trailer for “Gomorrah – The Series. The Origins,” the hotly anticipated prequel show to gritty Neapolitan mob series “Gomorrah,” which is Italy’s biggest TV export.

The Comcast-owned pay-TV service, as previously announced, has set a still-unspecified January release in Italy for the six-part limited series. Set in the 1970s, it traces the rise of mobster Pietro Savastano, who in “Gomorrah” is the head of the drug-dealing clan that bears his name. Savastano is played in the prequel by 16-year-old Naples native Luca Lubrano.

The show will roll out in the five other European counties where Sky is active, including the U.K. and Germany, in early 2026.

As the trailer shows, the origins story starts in 1977 with a very young Savastano, who grows up as an adoptive child in a dirt poor family in the Naples slum of Secondigliano. He’s a street kid who hustles and dreams of raising his economic status just as he loses his innocence along with his brothers and lifelong friends and experiences a first great love “which, like for every teenager, will be crazy and passionate,” according to the provided synopsis. His meeting with Angelo, known as ‘A Sirena,’ the mob boss of Secondigliano, then marks his entry into the world of crime. “Amid violence, alliances and betrayals, Pietro discovers at his own expense the price that that this life entails,” the synopsis says.

The prequel series is lead-directed by Marco D’Amore, who starred as ruthless central character Ciro Di Marzio in the “Gomorrah” original series.

During a recent press presentation, the show’s lead producer Riccardo Tozzi said D’Amore drew inspiration for the tone of “Gomorrah — The Origins” from Sergio Leone’s epic “Once Upon a Time in America,” about two childhood friends from New York’s Lower East Side who become powerful gangsters during the 1920s.

“It’s ‘Gomorrah’ because we have the show’s key characters, but it’s also something different,” Tozzi said. “It’s another narrative, another world.” Unlike the hyper-realistic contemporary Naples depicted in “Gomorrah” that brought audiences inside the belly of the real Neapolitan criminal underworld, the “Gomorrah” origins show portrays “a very beautiful Naples that is almost a fantasy,” the producer added.

Just like the original, “Gomorrah – The Series. The Origins” is being produced by Sky Studios and Cattleya, which is part of ITV Studios, and will be sold internationally by Beta Film. 

“Gomorrah” ran for five seasons between 2014 and 2021 The gritty show traveled to 190 countries, including the U.S., where it played on HBO Max.