First Look at Pierre Niney

“The Depend of Monte-Cristo,” the brand new interval epic from the group behind “The Three Musketeers,” is on the brink of hit the market after its five-month shoot wrapped this month.

Producers Dimitri Rassam at Mediawan-owned banner Chapter 2 and Pathé have unveiled a primary nonetheless of the film (above), which stars Pierre Niney as the enduring title character.

The movie is directed by Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de la Patellière, and is a bigscreen adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ famend masterpiece revolving round Edmond Dantès, a younger sailor who was falsely accused of treason and is imprisoned with out trial within the Château d’If, a grim island fortress close to Marseille. After a few years of captivity, he lastly escapes and, underneath the id of the Depend of Monte Cristo, plans to take revenge on those that have wrongly accused him. 

“’The Depend of Monte-Cristo’ is among the biggest tales ever instructed,” mentioned Delaporte and de la Patellière, whose current credit embrace the two-part epic “The Three Musketeers.” The pair described “The Depend of Monte-Cristo” as a “veritable fable mixing a number of cinematic genres – journey and thriller, layered on prime of an immensely highly effective love story.”

Delaporte and de la Patelliere mentioned their movie tells the story from the perspective of Edmond Dantès, “the primary French superhero, who steps from the sunshine into the shadows, assuming the id of masked avenger.” They added that Niney “can be a Monte Cristo such as you’ve by no means seen.”

Niney, one among France’s finest identified stars, mentioned: “Like tens of millions of readers all the world over, I used to be moved and carried away by the nice novel which is Monte Cristo. The aspiration and energy of this mission are each our dedication and our inspiration. We thrive to make an epic journey movie, with exceptionally sturdy characters, and at its core… a narrative of revenge.”

Niney’s credit embrace “Yves Saint Laurent,” “Franz” and “Black Field.”

At present in post-production, the movie is co-produced by M6 Movies and can be broadcast on M6, Canal+ and Ciné+. Fargo Movies is a coproducer. Pathé will launch the movie in theaters in France in the course of the second half of 2024 and is dealing with worldwide gross sales.

“’Monte-Cristo’ is a formidable problem. We’re humbly taking up this extraordinary fresco comprising journey, romance, thriller and vengeance,” Rassam mentioned. “Pathé and I are thrilled to work as soon as once more with Matthieu and Alexandre, who had the expertise wanted to respect the DNA of this masterpiece, whilst they got here up with a contemporary and really cinematic imaginative and prescient.”

The producer, who’s a historical past buff, delivered this 12 months’s two-part saga “The Three Musketeers,” the second installment of which is at the moment having a wholesome field workplace run in France.

Pathé CEO Ardavan Safaee mentioned the corporate was proud to convey “probably the most lovely French literary works to the display screen, a narrative and a personality that impressed so many others, in France and around the globe.”

“‘The Depend of Monte-Cristo,’ it should be mentioned, is the unique masked avenger story, a narrative of treason and of an inconceivable redemption. Nobody may sum that up in a single sentence higher than Dumas himself: ‘Hate is blind, anger inconsiderate, and he who pours himself a cup of vengeance might drink a really bitter brew,” Safaee continued.