By Tom Grater International Film Reporter Paul Verhoeven is lining up a French-language series adaptation of Guy de Maupassant’s classic novel Bel Ami, according to producer Saïd Ben Saïd.
Verhoeven will serve as showrunner and director of all eight episodes of the series, which has been written by Dutch screenwriter Gerard Soeteman, who previously collaborated with Verhoeven on features including Black Book and Turkish Delight.
Producer Ben Saïd, whose credits include Verhoeven’s Oscar-nominated Elle, unveiled news of the Bel Ami project on twitter and also added that a broadcaster for the series was “under discussion”.
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