Mayor of Le Havre (Seine-Maritime) and screenwriter.
Edouard Philippe announced today that he was working on a surprising project for a former Prime Minister.
He "works on writing a series," he told our colleagues at Point.fr.
This is the adaptation of “In the shadow”, the novel he wrote in 2011 with his friend MEP Gilles Boyer.
Their book goes behind the scenes of a presidential campaign, focusing on the people who work in the shadow of the candidate (press secretary, organizer of meetings, advisers, campaign manager, speech writers, etc.).
“It is a work of fiction which aims to bring pleasure to those who will see it.
We work with a team of screenwriters whose job it is.
And we try to say things that will not be caricatured about politics, which remains, fundamentally, something very exhilarating, hard and not always glorious - but not contemptible either ", declared Edouard Philippe, without specifying if he already had the agreement of a production company and a television channel and refused to talk about a casting.
Great admirer of "Black Baron"
The former Prime Minister took the opportunity to declare his love for the American series "A la Maison-Blanche" ("The West Wing", in original version), of which he has already watched the seven seasons four times.
Not surprisingly, this series describes American politics in such detail.
Unsurprisingly, Edouard Philippe is passionate about political series.
Among his favorites, he mentions “Black Baron”, a Canal + series in which Kad Merad plays an ambitious socialist elected from Dunkirk.
The mayor of Le Havre is fascinated by the verisimilitude of these creations, even if he considers that reality often exceeds fiction: “If we put in a series what happened during the last presidential election, no one would. would believe.
Yes, reality is richer and more complex than fiction.
It is true of political situations as individuals who evolve there, with fascinating contradictions and loyalties, the capacity to be very faithful to ideas and not to people, or vice versa… ”, he concludes.