Paramount+ unveils first Italian original

Oriana Fallaci

NEWS BRIEF: ViacomCBS-owned SVoD platform Paramount+ has greenlit its first original for Italy, a drama based on the life of local journalist Oriana Fallaci.

Coproduced by ViacomCBS International Studios and Italian indie Minerva Pictures, Miss Fallaci Takes America will portray the reporter’s early career in Hollywood at the end of the 1950s, working as an entertainment correspondent, before she became a war reporter and writer.