Guillaume Mousseau: first images from the series La Jeune fille et la nuit adapted from his novel France 2 [EXCLU]

Filmed in the Antibes region last year, France 2’s series adaptation of Guillaume Mousseau’s bestseller La Jeune Fille et la nuit has finally been revealed via the first teaser, seen above, which highlights the scene for Thomas, Fanny, Maxime and Vinca, the characters. Roman here portrays Ioan Gruffudd, Vahina Jokante, Grigori Fitus and Ivana Sakhno.

Directed by Bill Eagles (Strike Back) and written for the small screen by Marston Bloom, A Young Girl and the Night begins as a romance set in 1996 on a prestigious campus under frozen snow. A young girl disappears, kidnapped by the night. and leaves three friends bound by a tragic secret.

Twenty-five years later, in 2021, Fanny, Thomas and Maxime, once inseparable, have never spoken to each other since Vinza disappeared that winter night in 1996. However, Thomas decides to break this silence by going to the meeting. former students. Saint-Exupery Lyceum. And, without knowing it, will endanger the lives of those around him, starting with Maxime.

Indeed, on that fateful night in 1996, Thomas and Maxime committed the murder and stashed the body in the gymnasium of the high school, which will be destroyed in the coming days. How will the two friends manage to deal with the situation? It seems that everything is connected to Vinka’s disappearance. A disappearance that Thomas still does not want to solve.

In addition to Ioan Gruffudd (Liar, Forever), Grigory Fitus (Engrenages), Vahina Jokante (Skam France) and Ukrainian actress Ivana Sakhno, France 2 viewers will notably find Shemss Audat (Un Si Grand Soleil), Dervla Kirwan (Intimidation), Rupert . Graves (Sherlock), Salome Gunnarsdottir (Pennyworth) and Loyan Pons de Vier (Too Young for Me).

Produced by Make it Happen Studio (Sydney Gallonde), MGM International Television Production and the European Alliance, La Jeune fille et la nuit is expected very soon on France 2, without a specific date, and will also be offered on Rai. and ZDF.

And if we believe these first pictures, which reveal the contours of the disappearance of the “sulphur” and the “mysterious” Vinca, this thriller with a romantic twist, because Guillaume Mousseau has a secret, promises to be a real breathtaking event that should not be. It cannot please many readers of the French writer.

After all, The Girl and the Night alone has sold 2 million copies worldwide and been translated into 36 languages. Only this.

This event is the first transposition of Guillaume Mousseau’s work on the small screen, having already seen his novels Et après and Will you be there? It will be adapted for the cinema in 2008 and 2016.