Apple TV+ has set its latest French original: six-part thriller A L’ombre des Forêts.
Cannes Best Actor and three-time César Best Actor winner Benoît Magimel (Pacification, De Sont Vivant) and two-time César winner Mélanie Laurent have landed the leading roles. Cédric Anger (Next Time I’ll Aim For the Heart) is the creator and director and executive producers are Isabelle Degeorges and Christophe Riandee for Gaumont, which makes Netflix’s Lupin.
A L’ombre des Forêts will is set around an indecent that changes a man’s life. Franck (Magimel) and his long-time friends spend their weekends hunting together, but one Sunday encounter another group, who start targeting them without explanation. When one of their party is shot, Franck’s friends strike back. Barely managing to escape, the four friends decide to keep the event a secret. Franck tries to go back to his life as usual alongside his wife Krystel (Laurent), but in the next few days he starts to feel like him and his friends are being watched, or worse, tracked, by hunters who are now hell-bent on revenge.
No word on production schedules or launch dates just yet.
For Apple TV+, the series comes after French originals Liaison, which starred Vincent Cassel and Eva Green, and multilingual French-Japanese series Drops of God, which landed a second season last month and is based on a manga from Tadashi Agi and Shu Okimoto. Also on the slate is Carême, an upcoming drama series about the world’s first celebrity chef, Antonin Carême, who rose from humble beginnings in Paris to the height of culinary stardom in Napoleon’s Europe. La Maison, starring Lambert Wilson as a star designer whose family’s iconic haute couture house is thrown into scandal after a viral video is released. It is set to launch on September 24.
A L’ombre des Forêts is not Apple TV+’s first European scripted order of the week. As we revealed on Tuesday (June 25), the streamer has taken global rights to German drama series KRANK Berlin, about a doctor attempted to oversee necessary reform of the German capital’s busiest emergency room. Upcoming series include Where’s Wanda?, the first German original to come from Apple TV+, and Women in Blue, a Spanish-language crime drama from Fernando Rovzar.
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