EXCLUSIVE: Israeli romcom drama sequence The Baker and the Magnificence is being remade for France’s TF1, with French singer-songwriter Amir Haddad enjoying the lead.
Taking pictures begins this week in Paris on the present, which was remade by ABC within the U.S. a number of years in the past, marking Israeli main Keshet‘s first scripted format adaptation in France.
Primarily based on the acclaimed Israeli sequence from Assi Azar, La Belle et Le Boulanger follows Benjamin Mercier (Haddad) and Louise Meyer (Ludmilla von Claer – L’Apéro), who’re opposites. Whereas Louise travels around the globe modelling for the largest title designers and events into the night time, Benjamin is up early getting ready baguettes at his family-run bakery. They meet by accident in a restaurant males’s room, and Benjamin’s life is turned the other way up.
Haddad is a French-Israeli singer-songwriter who contested the French model of The Voice and was France’s Eurovision Music contest participant in 2016. That is considered one of his first TV roles.
Hervé Mimran (Tout ce qui brille) will direct the four-part French sequence for TF1, with Caroline Franc, Marion Michau, Jane Rioufol, Léa Lando and Ichem Saïbi writing. Banijay France’s Marathon Studio and Terence Movies are behind the difference.
The Baker and the Magnificence aired on Israel’s Channel 12 for 3 seasons between 2013 and 2021, performing properly with audiences and critics. A model was ordered by ABC and launched across the time of the pandemic however was canceled after one season because of low scores, though a passionate fanbase mounted a Save the Present marketing campaign with petition and fundraiser. It has additionally been remade in Russia, the Netherlands and India, whereas distributor Keshet Worldwide (KI) has licensed the unique Israeli sequence to Amazon through a world deal. KI will distribute the French model internationally.
KI Distribution MD Kelly Wright referred to as the present “a kind of codecs with plain common enchantment.”
Azar added: “It nonetheless amazes me to see {that a} sequence I wrote in my front room continues to cross continents and thrill viewers throughout the globe. The Baker and the Magnificence is among the most romantic love tales on the market.”