Netflix: Filming on French series halted after incident

For several years now, Netflix has left a lot of space on its platform for French productions. And if filming is generally going smoothly, production on the French series had to be halted for a few hours last week after a minor scare.

According to our colleagues at France Bleu, the Tais cave in Saint-Nazaire-en-Royan (Drôme), in which 26 people were shooting fiction, had to be evacuated this Wednesday, March 29, due to suspected gas. Warning.

A few members of the film crew would really start to ache. After realizing that the gas detector indicated 3,000 ppm (parts per million) of CO2, production decided to evacuate the building to avoid endangering its teams.

After that, thirteen rescuers came to check on the attendees and also make sure that the cave was not in danger. They discovered that it was CO2, not CO (carbon monoxide, a poisonous and odorless gas). Therefore, filming resumed without incident after the environment was deemed safe for the crews.

Contacted by Netflix, we confirmed that the incident took place during the filming of the mini-series Anthracite, created by Fanny Robert and Maxime Berthem, and starring Hatik and Noemi Schmid. Consisting of 6 episodes, this fiction promises to be one of the next big things on the platform.

Set in a small village in the Alps in 1994, the collective suicide of a sect hit the headlines… 30 years later, the murder of a woman murdered according to a strange community ritual balances fire and blood. precarious population found.

The ideal scapegoat, Jaro Gats (Hatik), a young criminal who descends into the mountains to get his life back on track, quickly finds himself framed for murder. Determined to prove his innocence, he receives unexpected help from Ida (Noemi Schmidt), an eccentric and ultra-connected geek on a quest to find her missing father…

They quickly realize that their involvement in this case is no accident, and that the answers they seek are rooted in the mysteries of their past.