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Tom meeting Pino the guy who he will be playing in the upcoming television series “Beneath a Scarlet Sky” in early April. Photo Courtesy of Michael Lella

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The bestseller “Beneath a Scarlet Sky” is based on a true story. The hero plays “Spider-Man” Tom Holland in the film adaptation. Actor Tom Holland (22, “Spider-Man: Homecoming”) will star in the film adaptation of Mark Sullivan’s (60) bestseller “Beneath a Scarlet Sky.” The book is based on a true story - and Tom Holland has already met the man he is to portray: Pino Lella. Silent for 60 years Pino Lella is an Italian teenager who is interested in music, food and girls. But when his hometown of Milan is bombed during World War II, Pino joins a underground organization that helps Jews fleeing across the Alps and begins to spy for the Allies. He falls in love with the six-year-older Anna. The well-known US author Mark Sullivan has written the story. When he met the real Pino for the first time, he initially did not want to talk about his story, “because he saw himself more as a coward than a hero,” it says in an interview to “Beneath a Scarlet Sky.” Nevertheless, Sullivan persuaded him and eventually heard the story of him in Italy: “We laughed and wept together and eventually became friends, which became one of the most emotional and valuable experiences of my life,” the author says. Why Pino Lella has not talked about his experiences for more than sixty years, the writer explains: “This is not unusual: Pino and many, many others who survived the war in Italy, blinded their experiences, burying their memories and telling stories none of it. ” The readers seem to be fascinated by the story, the novel on the US side of Amazon has nearly 19,000 customer reviews - more than 80 percent of them with maximum