“The Handmaid’s Story” cinematographer Bérénice Eveno is directing “Sleepless Nights,” a female-led spy thriller set in Parisian nightlife.
Commissioned by NBCUniversal for France, Spain, Poland, Belgium, Switzerland and the previous Yugoslavia, the six-episode sequence is now in post-production and anticipated to be delivered by the tip of 2026. SND is launching for worldwide gross sales at Mipcom in Cannes.
The sequence was created by Inan Çiçek (“Flashback”) and Florian Spitzer (“The Countess of Monte Cristo”), and co-written with David Robert and Charlotte Robb, who each labored on “HPI,” the hit French crime comedy sequence that impressed ABC’s “Excessive Potential.”
Eveno has assembled a solid of promising expertise for “Sleepless Nights,” together with French actor Sawsan Abes (“Ourika”), pictured above.
Abes performs Céline, a girl who spent a decade working at Crimson, an upscale strip membership on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, the place she realized to make use of seduction to her benefit. His life takes a harmful flip when one in every of his shoppers seems to be an arms seller linked to a terrorist plot. Recruited by the DGSI, the French home intelligence company, Céline is drawn into an infiltration operation that rapidly spirals uncontrolled. With out coaching or backup, she should navigate the felony world she is aware of from the within and assist intelligence agent Clément Meyer dismantle a terrorist community earlier than he can perform an assault in Paris.
The solid additionally contains Jérémie Laheurte (“Paris Police 1900”, “Blue is the Warmest Shade”), Sabrina Ouazani (“The Hook Up Plan”), David Kammenos (“The New Look”) and Marin Judas (“Titane”).
“What fascinated me was the distinction between glamor and hazard. The identical metropolis that guarantees freedom can change into a entice in seconds,” Eveno stated. “I needed to maintain the digicam as near Céline as doable, so the viewers would expertise the world of espionage by the eyes of somebody who was by no means meant to be part of it.”
“Nuits blanche” is produced by Quentin de Revel and Younes Nemiche for SND Fictions, the brand new scripted tv manufacturing arm of SND, a part of the French business broadcasting group M6.
“’Sleepless Nights’ is strictly the form of high-profile thriller worldwide patrons are in search of immediately: a recent enviornment and common story, wrapped within the glamor of Paris,” stated Alexis Reybet-Degat, head of worldwide TV sequence gross sales at SND. “It brings collectively the procedural stress of the very best spy dramas and the uncooked, nocturnal vitality of latest cinema.”
De Revel, head of fiction at SND Fictions, stated the sequence additionally displays the corporate’s ambitions because it expands its scripted tv enterprise.
“This sequence embodies the eclecticism and artistic ambition that characterize SND Fictions’ strategy to mission choice. But it will by no means have seen the sunshine of day with out NBC’s demanding and unwavering help all through the mission’s improvement,” stated de Revel.