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 [+leggi anche:
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intervista: 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 [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Tarik Saleh
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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 [+leggi anche:
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