This controversial novel imagined the coming to power in France of a president from a Muslim political party in 2022. Director Guillaume Nicloux will adapt the novel "Soumission" by Michel Houellebecq, we learned on Thursday .
According to a production press release, actor Jean-Paul Rouve ("Le Sens de la Fête", "Les Tuche") was chosen for the main role. The rest of the casting is underway. A first project evoked a series but it is a feature film that plans to shoot from September the director, who also co-signed the script.
A novel released the day of the Charlie Hebdo bombing
Guillaume Nicloux has already shown his closeness to the author of the “Elementary Particles” by filming him in “Thalasso”, a comedic camera released last year with Gérard Depardieu, in “The Abduction of Michel Houellebecq”, produced for Arte in 2014, or in “The Gordji Affair: the story of a cohabitation” in 2012 on Canal +. It is not yet known whether the author will appear on the screen in the adaptation of his book.
“Soumission”, a novel of anticipation, was released the same day as the attack on Charlie Hebdo, on January 7, 2015. It remained several weeks at the top of sales in France, Germany and Italy and passed more than two million copies.
