In 2016 he wrote, directed and produced his third film Italian Race, starring Stefano Accorsi and Matilda De Angelis.
It became one of the most successful box office hits in Italy that year, well received both by critics and audience.
In 2019 he directed the historical drama The First King: Birth of an Empire (Il primo re), starring Alessandro Borghi and Alessio Lapice.
The same year he was appointed as showrunner, producer and director of Romulus, a Sky Original TV series.
[2] In 2020 he also produced, together with Ascent Film, the biopic The Bad Poet, about the last days of Gabriele D'Annunzio, and the claustrophobic thriller Shadows, with Mia Threapleton and Lola Petticrew.