‘The Serpent’ Director Hans Herbots On ‘This is Not A Murder Mystery’, A Whodunnit Series Featuring René Magritte & Salvador Dalí
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Art becomes fiction as René Magritte, Salvador Dalí and their peers give the whodunnit genre a surreal makeover in This is Not A Murder Mystery.
Deadline can share an exclusive new image from the series, which is produced by Belgium-based indie Panenka. Hans Herbots, whose directing credits include The Serpent and Paris Has Fallen helmed all six eps. “We wanted to elevate the genre and give it a twist,” he tells Deadline. “This story, this universe, offered a lot of a lot of opportunity to do that.” “This is not a pipe” is the wording below Magritte’s famous 1929 picture ‘The Treachery of Images’ and This is Not A Murder Mystery features the iconic Belgian artist and several of his surrealist peers.
In fact, the series absolutely is a murder mystery – as Series Mania attendees will see, with the drama in the Coming Next From Belgium section.
It was commissioned by VRT, RTL & Proximus in Belgium and made as a copro with the powerful alliance of Euro pubcasters New8 and Deadpan Pictures.
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