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Disney+ To Tackle Momfluencer Malaise With French Original ‘Les Enfants Sont Rois,’ Euthanasia With Doc Series ‘Lambert v. Lambert’

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Ben Croll Disney+ will move forward on two new French series, tackling questions of euthanasia with “Lambert v. Lambert,” and intimacy in the social media age with the literary thriller “Les enfants sont rois.” Adapted from a recent page-turner by “Based on a True Story” author Delphine de Vigan, “Les enfants sont rois” (“The Children Are Kings”) follows a reality-TV has-been turned mommy vlogger who fills her social media feeds with daily updates about her two precocious children.

When her older daughter disappears and is thought kidnapped, the bereft momfluencer faces a police investigation that calls into question the very existence of child.

Described in one review as a mix of “Madame Bovary” and “Nineteen Eighty-Four” that plays as a “thriller, essay and court drama,” the caustic novel spans three decades, beginning with the rise of reality TV in 2001 and ending with an epigraph attributed to Stephen King: “We had a chance to change the world but opted for the Home Shopping Network instead.” A major bestseller in France, the acclaimed text provoked near immediate film and TV interest upon its release in 2021.

Habanita (Federation) will produce. Also announced, the four-part doc series “Lambert v. Lambert” will follow the years long legal battle between the wife of man in a persistent vegetative state and his parents and siblings, who used the courts to block any medically assisted end-of-life.

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