Johnny Depp ‘Chocolat’ To Be Remade As French-Language TV Sequence – Deadline

Johnny Depp hit Chocolat is to return as a French-language TV sequence from Miramax TV and Mediawan.

The five-time-Academy Award-nominated movie’s TV adaptation will probably be shot in French and set in a small city in modern-day France, with Mediawan-owned Atlantique Productions producing with Miramax. The film was launched in 2000.

Within the TV present, additionally tailored from the Joanne Harris novel, a girl and a daughter will calm down and disrupt the delicate social stability of the local people. Their greatest problem will probably be to persuade the city’s of us to embrace the change they’re bringing into city, like a breath of recent air.

“Joanne Harris’ richly textured comedian fable is a timeless and uplifting crowd-pleaser,” mentioned Marc Helwig, Miramax World Head of Televivsion. “This marks one more unbelievable venture from our intensive IP and movie library, that we’re capable of make the most of in our continued efforts of constructing tv content material for a world viewers. We discovered the right companion in Mediawan to deliver this actually worldwide manufacturing to TV screens around the globe.”

Helwig and Vice President of Tv Growth Mirsada Abdool Raman will lead inventive for Miramax, with Mediawan COO Elisabeth d’Arvieu and Atlantique Basic Director Nathalie Perus main for Mediawan. Studio heads Invoice Block and Pierre-Antoine Capton will govt produce as effectively.