AMC Networks Acquires North American Rights To ‘Monsieur Spade’ Drama Starring Clive Owen From Scott Frank & Tom Fontana; Black Bear TV To Produce
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: AMC Networks has acquired North American rights to Monsieur Spade, a one-hour drama starring Clive Owen from The Queen’s Gambit co-creator Scott Frank and City On A Hill showrunner Tom Fontana.
Black Bear Television also has joined as the series’ studio and will deficit finance.FilmNation Entertainment (I Know This Much Is True) will handle international distribution outside of North America.
French production company Haut et Court TV (The Returned, The Young Pope) will co-produce and handle local production services.The series will be shot in France this summer.
Pre-production is underway.Co-written by Fontana & Frank, and to be directed by Frank, Monsieur Spade centers around writer Dashiell Hammett’s great detective Sam Spade (Owen), the protagonist of Hammett’s 1930 classic The Maltese Falcon.
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