SND to wager on Fantômas at the AFM
- Toplined by Guillaume Canet, Romain Duris, Lyna Khoudri and Louis Peres, Frédéric Tellier’s movie will begin shooting in January
The American Film Market (running 11 – 16 November) will see SND kicking off presales on Frédéric Tellier’s Fantômas, which is due to begin filming in Paris in January. This will be the director’s 5th feature film after SK1 [+see also:
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film profile] (nominated for the 2016 Best First Film and Best Adapted Screenplay César awards), Through the Fire [+see also:
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film profile] (garnering 1 million admissions in France in 2018), Goliath [+see also:
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film profile] (2022) and Abbé Pierre – A Century of Devotion [+see also:
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interview: Frédéric Tellier
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Stand-out names in the cast include Guillaume Canet (nominated for the 2015 and 2018 Best Actor Césars and toplining this year’s Netflix movie Ad Vitam), Romain Duris (nominated for the Best Actor César five times, including last year via The Animal Kingdom [+see also:
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interview: Thomas Cailley
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interview: Pierre Schoeller
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film profile], and hitting screens next year in Le Fantôme de l’Opéra and Fils de personne), Lyna Khoudri (awarded 2020’s Best Newcomer César thanks to Papicha [+see also:
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interview: Mounia Meddour
film profile], nominated in the Best Supporting Role category in 2023, named Best Actress in Venice’s 2017 Orizzonti line-up, and starring in Eagles of the Republic [+see also:
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interview: Tarik Saleh
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interview: Mélissa Drigeard
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Revisiting the character of iconic French criminal mastermind Fantômas, who was created by Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain and who’s already inspired more than 30 novels, 13 films and an array of stage plays and series, the film – co-scripted by the director with Olivier Gorce, David Oelhoffen and Dan Franck – will take us back to Paris in 1914. A series of violent crimes are setting the police and the general public on edge. Always one step ahead of the authorities, Fantômas is a master of deception and chaos. At a time of violence and political tension, Lieutenant Juve finds himself hunting a man without a motive, an agenda or an identity, or any real pattern to his crimes. A man who’s ready to set the world on fire...
Produced by WY and SND, Fantômas will boast Belgian talent Glynn Speeckaert as director of photography, Florian Sanson (Annette [+see also:
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interview: Alice Winocour, Louis Garrel
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film profile] and the Lupin series) heading up costumes, Célia Lafite-Dupont (The Count of Monte-Cristo [+see also:
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(Translated from French)
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