Delphine de Vigan revealed in September 2021 that the rights to her book children are kings had been acquired for a serial adaptation, without giving further details. A year and a half later, the identity of the announcer is finally known. This adaptation will soon be shot in France for Disney+, the streaming platform announced on Wednesday, during the Series Mania international festival in Lille.
Like the book published in 2021 by Gallimard, the series will follow a “Youtuber mother who films her children all day and posts videos on YouTube until the day her daughter is kidnapped,” said Pauline Dauvin, VP in charge. of Disney+ original content in France.
“This is a thriller that addresses the issue of privacy in the age of social networks,” he added before an audience of professionals at the festival’s Forum. An earlier book by Delphine de Vigan, Based on a true storyIt was brought to the big screen in 2017 by Roman Polanski.
Continuing, like the rest of the American platforms, with its offensive in France, Disney+ will therefore be the broadcaster of this series produced by Habanita Federation.
Virginie Efira, Camélia Jordana and Karl Lagerfeld on the show
The long-eared firm also recalled this Wednesday that it would offer the series there this year. Everything is going wellhis first “family drama”, with Virginie Efira, created by the screenwriter of office of legendsCamille de Castelnau, to the first promising images.
He will also release the romantic comedy. Irresistiblewith Camélia Jordana, under the direction of a scriptwriter fromin therapyClemence Madeleine-Perdrillat.
The platform has also recently revealed the cast of its series on Karl Lagerfeld, “Kaiser Karl”, where Daniel Brühl (In the west, nothing is new, Inglorious Bastards, Goodbye Lenin!) will give the answer to Agnès Jaoui and Alex Lutz.
Subscribers will also be able to discover season 2 of family weekend, a family comedy starring Eric Judor, will begin on April 5, while the first season will air late-night on TMC on March 31 and April 7. On May 10, you will also be able to see Lambert vs. Lambert: On behalf of Vincent, a social documentary in four episodes on the Vincent Lambert affair, a symbol of the debate on the end of life in France.
Source: BFM TV
