A new series based on Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi is being put together over at Amazon. The new series, titled Sandstorm, will focus on the life of the fallen Gaddafi, and will supposedly air on the streamer’s Prime Video service, so reports Deadline.
The trade says:
The aim of Sandstorm is to tell the sprawling life story Gaddafi and Libya’s evolution under his reign, in the style that fact-based drama Narcos did to Pablo Escobar. Gaddafi rose from being the penniless son of an illiterate Bedouin goat herder to the young leader of Libya after King Idris was deposed in a bloodless coup. Among the many things he did was rearrange the relationship that oil rich Middle Eastern countries held with global petroleum corporations, often antagonizing his Saudi Arabian and Iranian neighbors.
The proposed series will be a co-production between Anonymous Content and O3 Productions. Deadline adds that Carter Harris (Bloodline) will write, and Mohamed Diab (Clash) will direct.
More as we get it.
