This is the event film of the beginning of summer: Le Comte de Monte Cristocurrently in theaters. A large-scale project for French cinema, led by producers Dimitri Rassam and Jérôme Seydoux, the same team that was in charge of the two parts of Three Musketeers.
In numbers, Le Comte de Monte Cristo It is a budget of 43 million euros, 77 days of filming spread over five months and up to 400 people mobilized on the sets. In other words, this 2h50 film is a blockbuster. Pierre Niney plays Monte Cristo on screen. He plays there a role who will remain as one of the markers of his career.
“I think it’s a bit like the English Hamlet. It’s an exceptional role that promises to play four or five roles in one : to play carefreeness, youth, love, happiness, then betrayal, the feeling of injustice, extreme physical and mental suffering, and then the desire for revenge of course, almost monstrosity, the heroic side up to the monster that one can become through obsession. All of these topics are so fascinating to explore that I think it’s a once-in-a-lifetime role,” confides Pierre Niney.
In this podcast of All aboutthe two directors of the film, Alexandre De La Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte, as well as Pierre Niney tell us behind the scenes of this French blockbuster.
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