Blackout on France 2: The director should never have read this sentence from the script!

Warning, this article contains spoilers for the final episodes of the Eclipse series. If you don’t want to know anything, don’t read the following!

Filming a TV series can sometimes be an adventure full of surprises. And the police series L’Eclipse, whose last two episodes aired on Wednesday, September 18 on France 2, is one of them.

Over the course of six episodes, the series plunged us into the heart of a police investigation that was full of twists and turns. In the course of the episodes, Manoue (Ann Charrier) and Johanna (Claire Keim) managed to solve the murder of Nouri, who was murdered under mysterious circumstances.

If the children of Johanna and Manoue have long been suspected of being behind this tragedy, the killer was actually Anthony (Victor Poirier), a police officer and teammate of the two heroes.

Indeed, Anthony was very angry with Nur because he had freed his parents’ herd of animals two years earlier. An action that led to the destruction of the Courtin family and the suicide attempt of Anthony’s father. As a result of this desperate gesture, the patriarch of Curtin was left damaged, but also disabled.

While the killer’s identity was kept a secret from viewers until the end of the plot, that wasn’t the case for everyone.

The director of the series spoiled the identity of the killer

Imagine that you are the director of a detective series and you will get a spoiler about the identity of the culprit towards the end. That’s exactly what happened to Frank Brett, the director of L’Eclipse, when he read the first script.

At a press conference in Paris last July, Frank Brett spoke about this unintended spoiler, which somewhat spoiled his enjoyment.

“This was done while reading the script for the first episode. They annotated. They ruined reading my scripts” he explained humorously before continuing.Sometimes we give instructions in the instructions. In the first episode, there was a reference to the crime scene. It read: “He opens the trunk lid and you can’t see what’s inside,” in bold. When you’re a director and you read this, you know what it means (laughs)“.

Therefore, the director requested that this mention be removed from the script, so as not to spoil the enjoyment for those who have not yet read it.