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Netflix France didn’t wait long before announcing the start of production on its first 2026 project: a thriller series les brumesWhich includes Pio Marmai and veteran artists behind the scenes. Here’s everything we know about the new project.
Reported through trade publications Diversity And satellite factsThe project joins the growing number of book-to-screen adaptations in production for Netflix around the world. Author of the original book, Dans Les Broomes De CapellansIs OLIVIER NOREC, A best-selling author who also works as a TV series writer: he created and wrote the successful France 2 procedural show les invisiblesas well as several episodes HoroscopeWhere he brought his experience as a former policeman. But his books also have a proven track record of being adapted into hit films: Last Fall, the series surface Delivered very satisfactory ratings in both linear and streaming for public broadcaster France Télévisions.
The summary mixes elements of atmospheric thriller with more classic investigation/police drama, and is as follows:
“Anna, a mute young woman and the only survivor, is immediately transported to a windswept Atlantic island. There lives Victor Coste, a police officer who has exiled himself to the other side of the world. Isolated from everything, he accepts one last mission: to talk to Anna, identify the killer and prevent him from striking again. But when the world’s densest fog descends, a race against time begins, as the island itself becomes a Turns into a trap.”
To present the visuals, the project can rely on creators, writers, and directors Matthew Delaporte And alexandre de la patelier ,Sylvain Caron While, has helped write 6 episodes Thierry Poiraud Will also remain on board to direct select episodes). Delaporte and De La Patelliere have enjoyed a fruitful career as in-demand writers, before taking it to the next level with a series of blockbusters based on Alexandre Dumas: two films based on the three Musketeersand is based on a vengeance Which has received critical and public success. they will start shooting les brumes This week in Ireland and France, under the supervision of the producer of his previous films, Dmitry Rassam, Through chapter two. The company has the ambition to produce high-end theatrical films and premium series with competitive production values. There will be partnership on chapter two les brumes with oud albano and Pathé Series, a recently launched division of the renowned French production company, which also recently delivered Belphegor For HBO Max and M6.
Pio Marmai in Netflix’s Nero
As with their previous projects, Delaporte and De La Patelliere are assembling an all-star cast, including drink marmai In the lead role, as policeman Victor Coste. The comedian has played the musketeer Porthos for him, as well as the lead of the Netflix show neroWhose second season is still unconfirmed by the platform. The cast will be rounded out Alice da Luz, Boulle Lanners, Stéphane Callard, Zineb Tricki, Patrick Mills, Florence Loret-Calle, Léonie Dehaan-Lamort, And Paul BeaurepaireIf successful this series could be the beginning of a series of adaptations by Norek: the main character Victor Coste is also the protagonist of four other books,
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