SEE FRENCH RIVIERA SET MINI SERIES THE REUNION BASED ON MUSSO'S FAMOUS NOVEL WITH IOAN GRUFFUDD, GREGORY FITOUSSI, RUPERT GRAVES

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FROM MUSSO'S BESTSELLER

The series will stream on ITVX next month

Here is one that kinda escaped my radar at some point: a small screen adaptation of Guillaume Musso's widely popular best selling book "La jeune fille et la nuit" which has been sold in more than 2 million copies around the world so far and has also been translated in over 35 languages making it a massive international hit. We do not have an English language trailer yet, sadly, but you can check out a French one below the post and tell us what you think.

 

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the six episode series about a missing girl and a secret buried for 25 years, already aired on France 2 broadcaster earlier this year and will arrive to ITVX in United Kingdom later this January and is already streaming on Stan in Australia. Ioan Gruffudd and Gregory Fitoussi together with Rupert Graves lead this series which starts in an elite prep school frozen in the snow. Three friends linked by a tragic secret. One girl taken by the night. 25 years ago, The girl body was buried in the gymnasium wall, the same wall that is about to be demolished.

The story is that of three friends linked by a tragic secret: the disappearance of their friend Vineca twenty-five years earlier. And when they find themselves nowadays, in the south of France, one of them will want to break the silence. In this trio of friends facing the secret, there is Fanny, played by Vahina Gioccante. The most vulnerable character.

IOAN GRUFFUDD, GREGORY FITOUSSI TO LEAD THE REUNION TV SERIES BASED ON MUSSO'S WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER! BBC TO ADAPT THE ENGLISH PATIENT INTO A PERIOD SET TV SERIES

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THE REUNION TV SERIES

Welsh star Ioan Gruffudd will lead the cast

As Variety reports, the French riviera set small screen adaptation of Guillaume Musso’s bestselling novel “La Jeune Fille et la Nuit,” has started shooting on location in the south of France with an international cast headlined by Ioan Gruffudd, Ivanna Sakhno and Grégory Fitoussi. Done for French television, Italian RAI and German ZDF, English language series THE REUNION opens in the present day, at a high school reunion in the south of France where three former friends reconnect. They grew apart and lost touch, but they are still bound by a tragic secret tied to the disappearance of a high school girl who went missing 25 years ago in the region. The book on

French star Gregory Fitoussi will also star in Reunion

which the six part series is based has been translated into more than 35 languages so far. Musso has been France's most popular writer for ten consecutive years now.

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BBC WORKING ON TV ADAPTATION

Speaking of new series, BBC is apparently in early stages of adapting Michael Ondaatje's THE ENGLISH PATIENT into a period set TV series. As Deadline reports, it will offer a new vision of the story about four dissimilar

The series is in early stages of production

people brought together at an Italian villa during World War II! Emily Ballou (who also wrote Becoming Elizabeth for Starz) is penning the script which follows a unrecognisably burned man — the eponymous patient, presumed to be English — his Canadian Army nurse, a Sikh British Army sapper and a Canadian thief. Set behind the North African and Italian campaigns of the Second World War, the book is told out of sequence and moves back and forth between the patient’s memories before his accident and the current evens at the bomb-damaged Italian monastery.