Netflix Lures ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ Filmmaking Duo for Pathe-Produced French Thriller Series ‘Les Brumes’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière, the screenwriting-filmmaking duo behind the smash hit “The Count of Monte Cristo,” are making their first series with Pathé and Netflix.

Titled “Les brumes,” the suspense thriller series is based on Olivier Norek’s book “Dans les brumes de Capelans.”

Created and written by Delaporte, de La Patellière and Sylvain Caron, the six-part series unfolds after an elusive killer disappears in the wake of a string of murders. “Anna, a mute young woman and the sole
survivor, is urgently extracted to a windswept Atlantic island. There lives Victor Coste, a police officer
who has exiled himself to the other side of the world. Cut off from everything, he accepts one last
mission: to get Anna to talk, identify the killer, and prevent him from striking again. But when the world’s
densest fog rolls in, a race against time begins, as the island itself turns into a trap,” reads the synopsis.

The cast is set to start shooting on Jan. 13 in France and Ireland with a topnotch French cast, including Pio Marmaï (“The Three Musketeers”), Alice Da Luz (“Carême”), Bouli Lanners (“The night of the 12th”), Stéphane Caillard (“Ad Vitam”), Zineb Triki (“Eagles of the Republic”), Patrick Mille (“The Count of Monte Cristo”), Florence Loiret-Caille (“The Bureau”), Léonie Dahan-Lamort (“Nudes”) and Paul Beaurepaire (“The Richest Woman in the World”). Delaporte and de La Patellière will be directing with Thierry Poiraud.

Aude Albano at Pathé is producing with Fargo Films, Delaporte and de La Patellière’s vehicle. The show reteams the filmmakers with Pathé, which co-produced, distributed in France and sold around the world “The Count of Monte Cristo.” The epic movie, produced by Dimitri Rassam’s Chapter 2, sold more than 9 million admissions in France after world premiering at Cannes, and turned out to be the second highest grossing French film of 2024. Delaporte and de La Patellière also penned Pathé’s two-part saga “The Three Musketeers.” The duo will next be making their English language feature debut with “The Iron King,” the first movie adapted from Maurice Druon’s Les Rois Maudits (“The Accursed Kings”) book series.