Noé Debré will obtain the inaugural French TV Disruptor Award from Deadline on the Unifrance Rendez-Vous market in Le Havre. The author and director will settle for the award as his Paramount+ and France Télévisions collection Zorro involves market, starring Jean Dujardin as the enduring masked hero.
Debré co-created the collection with Benjamin Charbit. It comes on the heels of his hit present Parlement. He has wrapped work on the fourth and closing season of that collection, a Franco-German-Belgian copro, which follows Samy Kantor, a younger assistant looking for his approach by the labyrinthine internal workings of the European Parliament.
With Zorro, Debré has taken traditional U.S.-originated IP and given it a French action-comedy twist for Paramount+ (chosen territories) and France Télévisions. On the small display, his upcoming initiatives embody an adaptation of ‘Vivre avec nos morts’ (‘Residing With Our Lifeless’) for streamer Max. It tells the story of a feminine French rabbi.
Deadline’s Disruptors strand is effectively established with a famend annual Cannes Disruptors journal and Worldwide Disruptors column.
The accolade for Debré acknowledges his TV work, however he’s energetic in movie too, co-writing each Tom McCarthy’s Matt Damon starrer Stillwater and Jacques Audiard’s Palme d’Or winner Dheepan.
Talking a few physique of labor spanning numerous sorts of TV collection and movie, Debré tells Deadline that he likes to have a number of plates spinning. “I actually have to be engaged on a number of totally different initiatives on the identical time,” he says. “In any other case, I type of get drowned in a mission and simply begin doubting every part. That’s the best way I work. And these items additionally have to be pretty totally different.”
Debré will settle for the Disruptor Award in-person through the Unifrance Rendez-Vous occasion in Le Havre.
