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.

1ST LOOK AT GUILLAUME MUSSO'S TV SERIES ADAPTATION THE REUNION WITH IOAN GRUFFUDD! CHILE TURNING ISABEL ALLENDE'S DAUGHTER OF FORTUNE INTO A 19TH CENTURY TV SAGA

   HIJA DE LA FORTUNA  

CHILE TO TURN ALLENDE'S EPIC NOVEL INTO TV SERIES

The series will be shot in English language

And it will be shot in English language! Beside other projects that will arrive to Spanish Conecta Fiction and Entertainment festival in Toledo, we have Invercine production house from Chile who is planning a TV series adaptation of Isabel Allende’s epic romance adventure HIJA DE LA TORTUNA aka DAUGHTER OF FORTUNE. Set during the gold rush of 1849, the series will take place in Chile and California. The series will have an international cast and an English show runner and writer. 

  1ST THE REUNION PHOTO  

FROM IOAN GRUFFUDD SERIES

Variety has published the first photo from MGM's mini series adaptation of Guillaume Musso’s bestselling novel “La Jeune fille et la nuit.” Starring Ioan Gruffudd and Rupert Graves,THE REUNION opens in the present day, at a reunion at an international school 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 fellow student 25 years ago.

CHACE CRAWFORD, NINA DOBREV, BILLY MAGNUSSEN CAST IN SNOWY REUNION MOVIE! WAR BELOW WW1 MOVIE TRAILER WITH SAM HAZELDINE! THE WOLF AND THE LION FAMILY ADVENTURE TRAILER

 REUNION THRILLER MOVIE 

CHACE CRAWFORD, NINA DOBREV, BILLY MAGNUSSEN CAST

Tis a rather hot cast indeed: as Variety reports ensemble comedy movie REUNION will feature Chace Crawford, Billy Magnussen, Nina Dobrev, Jamie Chung, Jillian Bell and Michael Hitchcock in the film

Billy Magnussen and Chace Crawford will lead the cast

about a murder that takes place during a high school reunion party. The story puts a whodunit spin on the genre of awkward, post-graduation gatherings with former classmates — it unfolds during a snowstorm that leaves guests trapped in an isolated mansion. Chris Nelson is directing over in Los Angeles.

 

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 HOPE RUNS DEEP

Released this month both in United Kingdom and United States is World War I drama movie THE WAR BELOW written and directed by J.P. Watts. During World War I, a group of British miners are recruited to tunnel

The War Below has had an internet release this month in UK and USA

underneath no man's land and set bombs from below the German front in hopes of breaking the deadly stalemate of the Battle of Messines. The film, based on true events, stars Sam Hazeldine, Tom Goodman Hill, Kris Hitchen, Elliot James Langridge and others.

 

 THE WOLF AND THE LION 

NEW FAMILY ADVENTURE

After Mia and the White Lion, the same producers are bringing us THE WOLF AND THE LION family adventure, a French movie shot in English

The movie hits Europe this Autumn

language for the international audience with the film ready to roll out in European cinemas from October all the way till January. Molly Kunz, Graham Greene, Charlie Carrick and Evan Buliung star in the film directed by Gilles de Maistre. After her grandfather's death, 20 year old Alma decides to go back to her childhood home – a little island in the heart of the majestic Canadian forest. Whilst there, she rescues two helpless cubs: a wolf and a lion. They forge an inseparable bond, but their world soon collapses as the forest ranger discovers the animals and takes them away. The two cub brothers must now embark on a treacherous journey across Canada to be reunited with one another and Alma once more.

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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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.