Platforms and channels took advantage of the fiction festival, which is coming to an end, to unveil projects in development or already being filmed.
We know the main part of their schedule for the last quarter of 2024, or even the very beginning of 2025. The platforms and channels have also revealed new projects in development or filming.
Netflix opened the announcements on Thursday, September 12 at the La Rochelle festival. After congratulating itself on the success of Under the Seine and its 100 million views, and the recognition of Tapie by a Bafta, the platform explained that it is preferably working on series offering the potential for several seasons.
Anger will return for a second part. Nerowith Pio Marmaï, Olivier Gourmet and Alice Isaaz and created by Alain Mauduit, one of the directors of Kaboul Kitchenwill make a foray into the cape and sword genre. With Young MillionairesIgor Gotesman (Five, Family Business, Fiasco) returns to the buddy movie. A group of 17-year-old friends from Marseille win the lottery, problem, they are minors and cannot touch the jackpot. An 8X40 minutes announced solar and in mode Sex Education. Very tempting, the return of Éric Rochant (The Bureau of Legends) in series with Othersthe story of a family that descends into crime, in Martinique, in the style of “gangs and drugs”. But nothing has leaked about the casting. In the longer term, we will also discover The Lionessesor four girls from a working-class neighborhood in a city in the south of France who decide to rob a bank. With Rebecca Marder, Zoé Marchal, Naidra Ayadi and Pascale Arbillot, by Olivier Rosemberg (Family Business). And finally GIGNa testosterone-fueled action thriller starring Tomer Sisley, by Julien Leclercq (already behind The Wages of Fear).
Hagai Levi on Arte
Arte took over on Friday, rejoicing at the 1.3 billion videos viewed on its platform in the first half of 2024 and insisting that, for the channel, each series is a prototype. And, with the miniseries as a benchmark. Someone should ban Sunday afternoons, by Spanish filmmaker Isabel Coixet, will begin filming in October. Or the misadventures of an apprentice director sharing a Parisian flat with two boys. Jeanne Balibar and Tim Robbins are in it! Ettyadapted from Journal de Etty Hillesum by Haggai Levi (The Affair, Our boys), will make her mark in Amsterdam and Berlin. The story of this eccentric young girl caught up in the rise of Nazism in 1941 is transposed to the present day.
The Seasonsthe first series directed by Nicolas Maury (Ten percent, Rag boy) tells the story of a trio of lovers, aged 15 to 45, in Les Sables d’Olonne. With Stéphane Caillard, Lucas Bravo… El Dorado, finally, returns to the incredible affair of the sniffer planes, revealed in 1983. Louis Farge (Follow ) will be in charge of production.
The Red and the Black on France Télévisions
France Télévisions in turn highlights the fact of being the first free fiction platform and is delighted that we now wait almost as much for the series season as for the literary season! With In beautiful sheets, we will follow a family that plunges into delinquency, a 6X52 minute film directed by Stéphanie Pillonca. The scent of happiness, adapted from the novel by Virginie Grimaldi, The scent of happiness is stronger in the rain, or the tribulations of a young single mother, will be directed by Baya Kasmi (The name of the people, the class struggle).
On the heritage side, after The adventures of young George Sand, producer and screenwriter Georges-Marc Benamou(To Fish), tackles Stendhal with Gilles Taurand, The Red and the Black. He’s still looking for his Julien Sorel! Mitterrand confidential a political-historical drama, will focus on the former president based on the scandal caused by the release of the book Une jeunesse française by Pierre Péan in 1994. Revolutionby Ali May, Iranian screenwriter, with Amit Cohen and Ron Leshem (No Man’s Land) will look back on the last 50 years of the country through the character of a veteran, a war correspondent, who returns to Tehran to save a little girl. Without forgetting Zonzor how a model student ends up in a juvenile prison, with Camille Chamoux and Fauve Hautot. To be continued!
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