AMC Picks Up The Clive Owen-Led “Monsieur Spade”
KING ARTHUR, Clive Owen, 2004, (c) Touchstone
While AMC might be most known for The Walking Dead franchise, the network just snagged the North American rights to Monsieur Spade, which has generated a lot of positive buzz since its announcement.
Acclaimed actor Clive Owen (King Arthur) is set to lead the drama series which is based on iconic author Dashiell Hammett’s detective character of Sam Spade, who was the protagonist of the leading man of his 1930 work The Maltese Falcon. Notably, that book was later adapted as a film with the legendary Humphrey Bogart cast in the role.
Monsieur Spade, however, is going to follow the titular detective in the midst of his well-earned retirement in the South of France in 1963 at the end of the Algerian War, long after the events of Maltese Falcon. And while Spade is content to leave his adventurous life behind, he’s quickly caught up in a mystery from his past that he’ll be forced to contend with head on.
The series is going to be shot on location in France with Scott Frank, the man behind Netflix’s monster hit, The Queen’s Gambit, and Tom Fontana (City on a Hill) acting as showrunners. They’ll each be pulling double duty as well, as Fontana has been tapped to write for the series while Frank is going to direct.
There is currently no timeline on when Monsieur Spade might debut for AMC, though given it is will be filming throughout the summer, it’s feasible it could drop around Christmas this year or Spring 2023. The show will be a co-production between Black Bear Television and Haut et Court TV.
