Jean Dujardin reunites with director Jan Kounen almost twenty years later 99 francs. While waiting for the premiere on October 25, the actor revealed a spectacular first photograph of this adventure film titled The shrinking man.
In this adaptation of a novel by Richard Matheson published in 1956, an ordinary man, faced with an inexplicable meteorological phenomenon, begins to shrink, without science being able to explain it.
When he accidentally finds himself trapped in his own basement, and is only a few inches tall, he will have to fight to survive in this deadly environment.
Jean Dujardin, who has dreamed of directing this film for several years, teamed up with producer Alain Goldman, with whom he already worked on the series. Alfonso and the movies 99 francs AND The Frenchto give life to The shrinking man.
After the success of “El Zorro”
This is the second adaptation of The shrinking manaccording to a famous version filmed in the 1950s: “I see our version more as a re-adaptation of Richard Matheson’s book than as a new version of the film,” explained Jan Kounen in Première.
“We included quite a few important elements that were only in the book, that I had never read. However, we maintained the linear structure of the film, telling the novel in a divided chronology…”
Jean Dujardin remains one of the most popular actors in France. Before hitting the big time this fall with the series. ZoroThe actor has achieved two consecutive successes in the cinema: Novemberwhich tracks the police investigation following the Bataclan attack, and On the black roadsaccording to Sylvain Tesson.
Source: BFM TV
