Guillaume Canet, Romain Duris, Lyna Khoudri and Louis Peres have been announced for the cast of a feature film reboot of Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain’s iconic Fantômas franchise about a criminal ...

Fantomas,” a reboot of the iconic French crime franchise, has assembled a strong local cast, including Guillaume Canet (“La Belle Époque”), Romain Duris (“The Three Musketeers”), Lyna Khoudri (“The ...

Wassim Beji, the French producer of “Boite noire,” and SND have acquired the adaptation rights to iconic French detective novels “Fantomas” and are planning a film and a series based on the franchise.

Since Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre first introduced the character in 1911 in a series of novels, French pop culture has seen many iterations — some truer to the original than others — of ...

Fantômas is a fictional character created by French writers Marcel Allain (1885–1969) and Pierre Souvestre (1874–1914). One of the most popular characters in the history of French crime fiction, ...

The project, which will start shooting in Paris in January, will be pitched by SND at the American Film Market. Created in 1911 by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre, Fantomas is one of France’s most ...