Vincenzo Cerami oversaw the screenplay, comic artist Milo Manara developed the character design[2] and Nicola Piovani wrote the original soundtrack.
The broadcast of the first 4 episodes with that format occurred between 21 January and 4 February 2019; the series was then paused, officially because a sickness of Celentano[12] but some critics argued also that the interruption was provoked by a severe audience flop,[13][14] and it has continued since 7 November 2019 with a different live show.
[5] The Adrian project officially began in 2009, when Clan Celentano and Sky Italia signed an agreement for the airing of the series in 2011, with a cycle of 26 episodes animated with CGI.
[6][4] Famous comic artist Milo Manara was hired for the character design, Nicola Piovani for the original soundtrack and Vincenzo Cerami for the screenplay supervision: the project was also co-produced with Cometa Film of Enzo D'Alò.
Milo Manara created the character design, Nicola Piovani wrote the original soundtrack with the supervision of Celentano; students of Holden School of Alessandro Baricco took part to the screenwriting, while Vincenzo Cerami oversaw the scripts until his death in 2013.
[27] During the presentation of the Mediaset schedules for the 2019–2020 season, CEO Pier Silvio Berlusconi confirmed the airing of the last episodes of Adrian in autumn, inside a live show with a greater participation of Celentano, and the cartoon was temporarily renamed as Adriano.
[27] The series was criticized for various aspects, in particular for the poor pace of the show: Giorgio Simonelli on Il Fatto Quotidiano wrote:[31] It is a science-fiction story with the usual fight between good/beautiful and bad, dirty and ugly power.
Despite a well drawn explicit erotism harmonious runs on bicycles, echoes of Metropolis and Blade Runner, frankly I did not give a damn of what was happening, just to mention him citing another.On la Repubblica, Alessandra Vitali wrote:[32] Much ado about nothing, it comes to say after Aspettando Adrian, perhaps then the audience enjoys the cartoon (Adrian) that a sense would have it too, if it was only for those signatures which appear on the headlines, from Manara to Piovani to Cerami, while portraits of a young Celentano with pectorals and lean mass and of a young Claudia Mori with enviable buttocks in the wind.TV critic Aldo Grasso wrote on Corriere della Sera:[33] Celentano is too wallowed around himself to imagine a future.
Also if in Adrian we are in 2068, also if a corrupted Power governs with deceit and homologation, also if the architecture is the classic one of each dystopian representation, the story is circular like a clock, self-referential: the clockmaker who saves the world.[...]
Unfortunately, the decision to use them has not been mine and at the time I could not point out my strong perplexity about it.After first episodes, critics became more harsh: journalist Maurizio Costanzo firmly attacked the idea of Celentano stating that:[36] When you decide to create a programme based on an own work, you should be humble and not conceited and you should realize it in a correct way for TV, like Al Bano did and Celentano did not.After the new broadcast of the programme in November 2019, critics has continued despite the struggles of Mediaset to rise the audience.
Despite he has involved the heavyweight of the nowadays TV, despite he has reduced the role of comic books and provided other modifications of the original format that has been a real flop.On the pages of Oggi, Don Backy was heavier in his affirmations:[38] Adrian's flop?