A Plague Tale: Innocence will become a TV series A Collaborator Of Tarantino Will Direct
The adventure of Amicia and Hugo will land on the small screen as A Plague Tale will become a TV series that will expand the franchise based on the video game series by Asobo Studio and Focus Home Interactive. The show will be directed by Frenchman Mathieu Turi, director of Hostile and Meander – Mortal Trap and assistant director to Quentin Tarantino in Inglourious Basterds (2009).
It was the transalpine filmmaker himself who made the news official via social media after some rumors about it had made their way onto the web during this week. According to the first information on the A Plague Tale TV series, the first season of the show should adapt the story of the first chapter of the videogame saga, or A Plague Tale: Innocence. The events of this title see the young orphans Amicia and Hugo set out on a journey to escape the Black Plague and the Inquisition, in the period of the Hundred Years War, the conflict that pitted the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of France from 1337 to 1453.
A Plague Tale: Innocence
French film house Merlin Productions will handle the production of this TV series together with Focus Entertainment. At the moment no information has been provided regarding a possible release date of the show. The TV series will be directed by Mathieu Turi, Quentin Tarantino’s assistant director in Inglourious Basterds and Luc Besson in Lucy. His directorial debut was the horror film Hostile. “For me it is essential that our productions reflect French talent and know-how. A Plague Tale is a game designed in Bordeaux by Asobo that we produce with a company based in Paris; its creators had the opportunity to sell the adaptation in the United States, but they preferred to work with the French: I want to restore that trust to them “, comments Fabrice Renault, head of Merlin Productions, who will handle the production of this series. The game’s editor, Focus Entertainment, will be co-producer.
👱♀️🧒🔥🐀 It’s official! I’m honored to work on the adaptation as a TV series of @APlagueTale. Thank you to @AsoboStudio and @Focus_entmt for their trust. I can’t wait to bring Amicia and Hugo’s journey to the screen! https://t.co/93Ct3FuCp2 #APlagueTale #Mediawan #MerlinProd
— Mathieu Turi (@MathieuTURI) March 17, 2022
With staggeringly beautiful art direction, balanced gameplay and a gripping story, A Plague Tale: Innocence holds its own against twenty times the budget productions; benefiting from a hypnotic and sublime soundtrack by composer Olivier Derivière (who signed one of his most beautiful soundtracks), the game has left an imprint in the hearts of all gamers. A great and well-deserved success for the French studio Asobo which, last year, unveiled the first images of the sequel, A Plague Tale: Requiem, expected for this year.
