Luc Besson to direct US detective show

LEFT: French film director Luc Besson poses upon arrival for the pre-premiere of the film 'Valerian and The City of a Thousand Planets' in La Plaine-Saint-Denis, Paris, France, July 25, 2017. AFP/Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt/Files; RIGHT: French actor Jean Dujardin (L) and his partner former French figure skater Nathalie Pechalat pose as they arrive for the 42nd edition of the Cesar Ceremony at the Salle Pleyel, Paris, February 24, 2017. AFP/Thomas Samson

 

LOS ANGELES: French filmmaker Luc Besson is working on a pilot for a proposed police drama starring the Oscar-winning actor Jean Dujardin, a source at US television network ABC told AFP on Wednesday.

The French Detective would be adapted from James Patterson's novels about the Parisian detective Luc Moncrief, who moves to New York and joins the police department there to escape his dark past.

The first US television role for Dujardin — who won the best actor for silent movie The Artist (2011) — would follow Moncrief as he and his female colleague hunt the perpetrators of various complex crimes.

It would also be the first TV series directed by Besson — the French filmmaker best known among the American public for his films Nikita, The Fifth Element, and Leon: The Professional.