France 2 broadcasts this Monday evening at 21:10 the last two episodes of Prisoner Island, the first original series by Michel Bouss. While the famous author has often seen his books adapted into serials, as was the case with Plane Without Him on the M6, this is the first time he has co-written the screenplay for the fiction.
“I was already working with France 2, which often took on projects to adapt my series– he explained during the festival series Mania 2022.And I quickly realized that they wanted to be the first to have an original idea for television.“
Directed by Pierre Perrier (Fear on the Lake), Lanique Gautre (Reach for the Heart) and Deborah François (Saving Lisa), this 6-episode series tells the fate of the inhabitants of a small island in Brittany, who see twenty armed activists. Who are these activists? Why are the residents of Penhick in custody? Who among them will become heroes, cowards or traitors?
The scenario could have been completely different
It’s been a few years since Michel Bussey felt the urge to write scripts for television. The story of the island of captives has been spinning in his head for more than thirty years.
But the first version of his script was very different from what viewers were able to discover on February 13. “The idea was for a French village in the mountains to be held hostage by activists who wanted to organize an attack.“, he told our colleagues Parisian.
This first idea, which was to be called “Davos l’été”, triggered an avalanche of activists in a place where every billionaire on the planet met. A version that unfortunately failed to convince the producers who were looking for a classic police script.
Until the day France Télévisions agreed to take a risk and bet on a famous writer. Michel Bussi and his co-screenwriter Christian Cleres changed the scenery, as the events finally take place not in the mountains, but on the sea, and more precisely on the fictitious island of Penhic. On the island of prisoners. .
Find the last two episodes of L’Île burgnière this Monday, February 27, from 21:10 on France 2.
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