‘Call My Agent!’ Producers Discuss Movie Plans and What’s Next for The Hit French Show (EXCLUSIVE)

variety.com:

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentWith a number of remakes and a movie in the pipeline, “Call My Agent!,” the International Emmy Award-winning series set at a Parisian talent agency, has become one of the most powerful television shows to emerge from France.The series’ producers, Mediawan-owned Mon Voisin Productions and Mother Production, are co-producing the highly anticipated U.K.

remake with Headline Pictures and Bron Studios (“Joker”) for Amazon Prime Video and Sundance Now.The producers are also in the process of developing a 90-minute film with Nicolas Mercier, one of the two showrunners behind “Call My Agent!” (Mercier took over as showrunner from Fanny Herrero.)“It will open with Andrea [Camille Cottin] in New York and will then move to France — we will give an American point of view on filming in France and it promises to be quite colorful,” says Michel Feller at Mon Voisin Productions.

The TV movie is being co-developed by France Televisions. Netflix, which picked up “Call My Agent!” shortly after season one aired on France Televisions and has given it massive international exposure, is expected to acquire global rights (outside of France) to the longer format.Elsewhere, the English-language remake is set to bow on Amazon and Sundance Now this spring.Discussing the U.K.

show, Aurelien Larger at Mother Production says, “It’s a very rare achievement for a French show to be remade in the U.K. and even more so for French producers to be involved creatively in it but we always kept in mind that a good remake has to betray the original and that’s especially true for Britain, which has such a vibrant culture.”Both Feller and Larger point out that the U.K.