On August 23, it will already be ten years since Jean-Luc Delarue died of cancer at the age of 48. As this anniversary date approaches, TF1 has announced the broadcast ofa documentary called Jean-Luc Delarue, 10 years already: success in excess, imagined by Reservoir Prod, the production house that the late animator had himself founded in June 1994.
Eve Ewing, current general manager of Reservoir Prod confided in TV Star a little less than ten days before the broadcast of the documentary (August 24), revealing the first details on this great project already eagerly awaited by viewers. What can we expect?
“This new project was born from a desire to tell his story as a series, because his journey is close to fiction.“, explains in the preamble Eve Ewing, who makes it known that TF1 was chosen rather than a channel of France Télévisions by “loyalty”. “They had already ordered a documentary from us broadcast on D8 in 2015“, she specifies.
On the program of this portrait of two hours fifteen divided into three parts, many key dates mentioned and multiple testimonies. But if viewers hoped to be able to hear those of Elisabeth Bost, journalist and ex-companion of Jean-Luc Delarue, and their very discreet son Jean, it will not be. “Elisabeth Bost, the mother of her son, did not wish to speak on the subjectlet Eve Ewing know to our colleagues at TV Star. And then there is Jean, who is 15 today. We wanted to respect that. It is the saga of the TV man that we wanted to highlight.“
The 10 years of the death of her ex-companion is not without reviving painful memories for Elisabeth Bost, who found herself in a legal battle against Anissa Delarue, the widow of Jean-Luc Delarue, after the death of the animator. The two women had opposed for the inheritance, Elisabeth Bost asking that the marriage of Anissa Khelifi-Delarue with the father of her son be declared null. The Tribunal de Grande Instance of Paris had finally agreed with the widow of Jean-Luc Delarue by declaring that their marriage “was a well thought out project“Even before the discovery of the cancer of the much-loved animator. Elisabeth Bost had therefore lost the lawsuit…
In Jean-Luc Delarue, 10 years old already: excess success, viewers will still be able to discover the testimonies of the parents of Jean-Luc Delarue but also of former collaborators or animators and producers like Christophe Dechavanne and Thierry Ardisson.