30 Coffin Island: Arsen Lupine plays an unexpected role in a novel that inspired the France 2 series.

After three weeks of broadcasting, The Island of 30 Coffins, a new thriller from France 2, directed by Virgin Ledoyen, Charles Burling, Stanley Weber and Jeremy Gillette (Mito), ended last Monday with a good record for the channel after six years. The episodes drew an average of 3.38 million viewers, or 16.7% of the public.

For those who missed it on France 2 or later, this new adaptation of Maurice LeBlanc’s novel of the same name, which was already released in 1979, starring Claude Jade, is still available on Salto. A good opportunity to catch up with him and get back to the significant difference between a TV series and a novel that is his source of inspiration.

Because if the story is relatively true to the story of the book published in 1919, the series produced by Frederic Mermud obviously gets some freedom from the raw material, as producer Stephen Moat said at a press conference organized by France 2.

“The 1979 series marked a whole generation. A lot of adaptation work was done by Elsa Marpo and Florent Meyer, the screenwriters, to preserve some of Maurice LeBlanc’s motifs and offer a version that fits what we call it. Is becoming disturbing “.

Thirty Coffins Island LeBlanc’s writing begins in 1917, when the heroine, Veronica D’Hergemon, returns to the island of Sarek in search of a father and son who were pronounced dead fifteen years ago. And, against all odds, Arsen Lupine, a gentleman imagined by robber Maurice LeBlanc, comes in the second half of the story to help Veronica solve the investigation.

Already at that time appeared in several books by the author, e.g. Hollow needle And 813Arsen Lupine, a disguise expert who does not shy away from multiple identities to commit a crime and unravel a criminal mystery, thus experiences a unique literary escape in Brittany under the pseudonym of Louis Perena, a druid who postpones Vorsk’s damaging condition. And whose name is nothing but the anagram of Arsen Lupine.

“As is often the case in his adventures, Lupine only appears late in the narrative: here, in the middle of the book.” Explained Thierry Brehyme Article from France info published in 2017 And devoted to the novel Thirty Coffins Island. “Leblanc is still developing a horrific story where the worst is getting worse, the bad guys are getting worse and worse, and the good guys are losing more and more land.”.

“As if to avoid trouble, LeBlanc, who was still sensitive to the spiritual context of his time, mocks the Breton High Priest: Arsen Lupine himself, in his twentieth disguise, is transformed into a druid.”Continues Thierry Brahier. While intimidating and demeaning his enemies with his ironic words and white robes, he ridicules every superstition and every fear used by the high priests of all walks of life to assert their power over people who are overly diligent because they are so isolated. The world. Know. He comes as a Druid to play with tradition, but he arrives in a high-tech submarine, the space shuttle of that time. “.

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“I read a book, I saw the 1979 series. And I said to Elsa and Florent from the beginning, “Read the novel, but do what you want for the series.” The producer of the France 2 series explained to us the choice of adaptation made by the screenwriters. “It’s a relatively faithful adaptation, but there are differences. In the novel, Arsen Lupine arrives, deus ex machina, at one point. He was not filmed in the 1979 series, nor did we renew it.”.

“What we were interested in was the parallel between the soap opera tradition in France and the golden age of soap operas that we live in today. We started with Maurice LeBlanc, a closed session, on Mysterious Island. And we are at that point. A heroine who experiences an experience in the sense that it is built on lies. And all this will free him. “.

“With Elsa, we refrained from watching the 1979 series so as not to be too inspired or surprised by these images.”For his part, Ando Florent Meyer, who especially worked on the Arte Amour fou series. “We asked people who saw that they had a reason why they were scared. And since this adoption of the series, we have tried to recreate this effect with our modern storytelling techniques. And we also needed a hero who is an actor. In his search for who responds to events that he does not experience what is happening. And this is very different from the previous adaptation “.

And because Christine, played by Virgin Ledoyen, is “Her Search Actor” In the 30 Coffins Island version of France 2, she clearly did not need Arsene Lupine’s intervention to overcome her husband’s influence or to end his harmful actions.