TheJakartaPost
Please Update your browser
Your browser is out of date, and may not be compatible with our website. A list of the most popular web browsers can be found below.
Just click on the icons to get to the download page.
Luc Besson to direct US detective show
Change Size
Director Luc Besson during 'Valerian' premiere in Warsaw, Poland, on July 22, 2017. (Shutterstock/File)
F
rench filmmaker Luc Besson is working on a pilot for a proposed police drama starring the Oscar-winning actor Jean Dujardin, a source at US television network ABC told AFP on Wednesday.
"The French Detective," would be adapted from James Patterson's novels about the Parisian detective Luc Moncrief, who moves to New York and joins the police department there to escape his dark past.
Read also: 5 top Hollywood actresses with new TV shows
The first US television role for Dujardin, who won best actor for silent movie "The Artist" (2011), would follow Moncrief as he and his female colleague hunt the perpetrators of various complex crimes.
It would also be the first TV series directed by Besson, the French filmmaker best known among the American public for his films "Nikita," "The Fifth Element" and "Leon: The Professional."
