Studiocanal has boarded “A Prophet,” a new television adaptation of Jacques Audiard’s acclaimed 2009 film. The eight-episode limited series started filming on July 3, with “Django”…
The French-language series brings back the award-winning team behind the original film, including creators and writers Abdel Raouf Dafri and Nicolas Peufaillit , as well as producer Marco Cherqui , in agreement with “The show, which is filming in Marseille and Puglia, Italy, is produced by Cherqui and, and co-produced by UGC, Orange Studio and Savon Noir, with the participation of OCS. The key crew includes “Gomorra” cinematographer Ferran Paredes Rubio.
Set in present-day Marseille, the new series stars Sidibé as Malik El Djebenna, a drug mule who is incarcerated at the infamous Baumettes prison. There he crosses paths with a man from a fairly bourgeois segment of the local French-Arab community, played by Sami Bouajila , who unexpectedly becomes his mentor. Studiocanal has described the “series noir” as a “criminal among criminals” tale, saying it “will weave complex subplots with a surrealistic domino effect of repercussions.
Cherqui states that Dafri and Peufaillit have modernized the story of “A Prophet” by setting it in contemporary French society while maintaining its DNA.
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