Director Vincent Dietschy accuses Netflix blockbuster of plagiarism. A hearing is taking place this Friday, June 14 at the Paris judicial court.
Hottest of the week on Netflix, Under the Seine by Xavier Gens, the shark film in Parisian waters with Bérénice Bejo and Nassim Lyes, was accused of plagiarism by director Vincent Dietschy.
A hearing is taking place this Friday, June 14 at the Paris judicial court to obtain a suspension of the broadcast of Under the Seine. A trial against Netflix and the film’s producers will take place on another date, according to The Parisian.
135 touchpoints
Vincent Dietschy claims to have imagined a project in 2011 entitled Catfish which tells of the confrontation in the Seine in Paris between a woman and an enormous man-killing fish. All against the backdrop of the Olympic Games.
“We noted no less than 135 points of contact between the “Silure” project and the film Sous la Seine,” he told Le Parisien. “My goal is for the theft of which I was a victim to be recognized.”
“Even the idea of going to intercept the fish in the lock of the port of Arsenal, which is not the most obvious place in Paris, was in my project,” he said. he added again. “You can’t tell me that again, it’s a coincidence.”
40 million views
“This is an important project for me, for which I have worked a lot and which I care very much about,” he concluded. “It started from an unhappy love story, I put everything I had into it. I had the ambition to make it a great popular film.”
Available since June 5 on Netflix, Under the Seine is an ecological thriller inspired by producers Edouard Duprey and Sébastien Auscher, “who wanted to make a film about sharks in the Seine”, affirmed Xavier Gens to BFMTV.
Made between France, Spain and Belgium, Under the Seine benefits from a budget worthy of a blockbuster. With more than 40.9 million views in one week, it is preparing to become one of the most viewed French films on the platform.
