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Mar 9, 2026 5:51am PT New Ennio Morricone Doc to Delve Into Legendary Composer’s Concert Activity (EXCLUSIVE) The project is based on the perspective of his manager Luigi Caiola, who produced over 250 Morricone concerts all over the world By Nick Vivarelli Plus Icon Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent @NickVivarelli Latest Giorgio Gosetti, Venice Days Founder and Longtime Lido Collaborator, Dies at 70 3 days ago Porn Star Rocco Siffredi Sues Mediaset and Actresses Who Claimed He Engaged in Non-Consensual Sexual Practices 3 days ago Berlin Golden Bear Winner Ilker Catak Reacts to German Government Recommendations for Festival: ‘We Would Have to Call It What It Is: Censorship’ 4 days ago See All Getty Oscar-winning composer Ennio Morricone will get the big-screen treatment in a new documentary titled “I Never Wrote Music for Films — We All Love Ennio Morricone.” The project is based on the perspective of his manager Luigi Caiola, who produced over 250 Morricone concerts all over the world. “I Never Wrote Music for Films” follows director Giuseppe Tornatore’s widely sold Morricone doc “Ennio” that launched from Venice in 2021. Related Stories Motion Picture Association Pushes ByteDance to Curb Seedance 2.0 AI Infringement The new Morricone doc is being produced by Milan-based Marie Mariad Cinema and Chinese multihyphenate Yi Zhou along with Caiola, who managed the maestro from 1997 to 2015, producing his global concert tours as well as the Grammy-winning tribute album “We All Love Ennio Morricone.” Popular on Variety Zhou, who produced and co-directed the doc “Chronicles of Disney,” announced the new Morricone doc on Monday, which she is boarding through her companies Into the Sun Films and Colors of the Sun Ventures. Morricone, who died in 2020 at age 91, was one of the most prolific and admired composers in film history. Starting in 1946, he composed over 500 scores for film and television, as well as over 100 pieces of music for orchestral performance. At least a dozen of his scores became classics, from the so-called spaghetti Westerns of the 1960s including Sergio Leone’s “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” and “Once Upon a Time in the West,” to the Cannes Palm d’Or-winning Roland Joffe film “The Mission” and “Cinema Paradiso” of the 1980s. “I Never Wrote Music for Films — We All Love Ennio Morricone” will be directed by Italian musicologist Massimo Privitera, who will work in tandem with ace cinematographer and director Daniele Ciprì (“Vincere”). Shooting is planned to start in summer 2026 across multiple locations in Italy and Europe, according to a statement from Into the Sun Films. The new Morricone doc project is divided into nine chapters, blending fictional sketches, commentary from music experts and previously unseen archival footage. “It includes testimonials from the musicians who toured with the maestro for nearly twenty years, offering a ‘first-hand’ account of his daily work and humanity,” the statement said. Colors of the Sun Ventures will handle the doc’s post-production and take distribution rights for selected international territories in tandem with its Moon Prism Entertainment subsidiary. Jump to Comments ‘God of War’ Live-Action Series Casts Callum Vinson as Atreus ‘God of War’ Live-Action Series Casts ‘Boots’ Alum Max Parker ‘Legally Blonde’ Prequel Series ‘Elle’ Sets Release Date, Amazon Renews Show for Season 2 ‘God of War’ Live-Action Series Finds Its Modi, Magni, Gna, and Thrud ‘God of War’ Live-Action Series Brings Back Alastair Duncan as Mimir, Casts Danny Woodburn & Jeff Gulka as Brok, Sindri ‘Life Is Strange’ TV Series Casts Maisy Stella, Tatum Grace Hopkins as Chloe and Max (EXCLUSIVE) JavaScript is required to load the comments. Loading comments...