Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Fantomas,” a reboot of the iconic French crime franchise, has assembled a strong local cast, including Guillaume Canet (“La Belle ...

Wassim Beji, the French producer of “Boite noire,” and SND have acquired the adaptation rights to iconic French detective novels “Fantomas” and are planning a film and a series based on the franchise.

“Fantomas,” a reboot of the iconic French crime franchise, has assembled a strong local cast, including Guillaume Canet (“La Belle Époque”), Romain Duris (“The Three Musketeers”), Lyna Khoudri (“The ...

The project, which will start shooting in Paris in January, will be pitched by SND at the American Film Market. Created in 1911 by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre, Fantomas is one of France’s most ...