(Paris) Adaptation of the video game “Fallout”, biopics on the fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld and the American politician Benjamin Franklin… The Canneseries festival (April 5-10) unveiled on Tuesday a strong program around highly anticipated series, promising rain of stars on the Croisette, in the south of France.
The 7e edition of the festival supported by the encrypted French channel Canal+ will open with the screening of Terminalsitcom created by Jamel Debbouze.
Outside of competition, the previews will continue with fallout, adaptation of the eponymous franchise for the Amazon platform, Prime Video. One of its actors, the American Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks, Desperate Housewives), will receive an honorary prize, as will the series’ headliner, Briton Ella Purnell (Yellowjackets). He will also deliver a master class.
Participants will also discover the German Daniel Brühl (Good Bye Lenin! Inglorious Basterds) In Becoming Karl Lagerfelda French production for Disney+ hitherto titled Kaiser Karl and which will be released on June 7.
The six-episode series, adapted from the biography written by the daily journalist The world Raphaëlle Bacqué traces the rise, in the 1970s, of Karl Lagerfeld, before he became the emblematic couturier of the house of Chanel.
Frenchman Pierre Niney will appear as an overwhelmed director in Fiasco (Netflix) and the American Michael Douglas as the founding father of the United States in Franklin (Apple TV+), closing series.
Other highlights of the festival include a meeting with Jason Priestley, the Brandon of Beverly Hillsthe Canadian Vanessa Morgan (Riverdale) and the Italian-Canadian Giacomo Gianniotti (Grey’s Anatomy), to the distribution of the Canadian series Wild Cards.
A few months before the Paris Olympics (July 26-August 11), sports fans will also be able to attend a screening of the Canal+ documentary Handball, a family storybefore exchanging with Jackson Richardson, the first star of French handball.
Those from Dragon Ballwhose Japanese creator Akira Toriyama has just died at the age of 68, will be able to follow a conversation with Brigitte Lecordier, the French voice of the hero San Goku.
On the competition side, eight works from as many countries, including for the first time China and Brazil (with a biopic on the sociologist Herbert de Souza), will compete in the long format category.