A series on the scammer Christophe Rocancourt will see the light of day

He should not be surprised by the current media coverage of the

and other VAT tax evaders on the carbon tax.

Christophe Rocancourt has known this for years.

It has even become in France a kind of symbol of the crook.

Rocancourt, 30,000 subscribers on Instagram, still questions even if he says he is tidy and gentrified, and that his most media shots date from the 1990s. Everything would have been said about Mickey Rourke's false friend and Catherine Breillat's real thief ?

Maybe.

But not in fiction.

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From the DDASS to Manhattan

In 2016,

announced that the rights to two autobiographical books

and

(Michel Lafon editions) had been sold to the Pan-Européenne production company.

A film was then mentioned.

It will ultimately be a series, a format that better corresponds to the trajectory of a crook, made up of upheavals and multiple intrigues, assures producer Dorothée Woillez.

It is being written.

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There will certainly be no lack of intrigue.

In his career, this Norman, now in his fifties, passed himself off as a Rockefeller heir, an ex-boxing champion like the offspring of an Italian producer, multiplying the borrowing of identities - it was the only thing he borrowed - to defraud American high society.

This will give work to the costume designers and a hard time to the scriptwriters.

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The latter will keep a margin of romantic freedom.

, summarizes Dorothée Woillez, at the helm of this project with Philippe Godeau, to whom we owe the 2013 film on the famous flight, by a conveyor of funds, of 11.6 million euros.

This director and producer, who met Rocancourt several times at the start of the project, says he admires his destiny.

If not of the man himself.

he explains, which led him to the heights of Manhattan.

Before spending five years in the shade.

A new conviction

Dorothée Woillez resumes:

From a scriptwriting point of view, of course.

This fiction could be a mini-series.

Or lead to further development.

We would not be surprised that it arouses the interest of platforms, when we know the appetite they have for the subject.

Netflix, to name a few, has multiplied productions since 2021, from the

to

the

series .

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Until now, there have never been any films about Christophe Rocancourt's career.

The producer Thomas Langmann had lined up in 2002 thinking of Edward Norton to embody him according to

, but the project had fallen through.

Catherine Breillat was also supposed to make one, but the haddock, who was also her protege and was to become her actor, weighed her down with several hundred thousand euros... This misadventure, the director told it in a film ,

, released in 2013. Not quite to Rocancourt's advantage.

In 2017, Canal+ made a long documentary,

, which dissected his manipulation techniques.

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Will fiction, in turn, allow us to better understand his personality?

Psychologists, magistrates and journalists have tried it in the past.

Just last year, the Crime District channel broadcast a documentary (visible on the Explore platform) entitled

.

The experts wondered about the

, not of his anecdotes, but of his emotions.

He always replies that he never recovered from his childhood.

But if it was she who pushed him towards illegality, will he come back one day?

Last December, he was again sentenced to an eighteen-month suspended prison sentence, to do under an electronic bracelet, and to 30,000 euros in fines.

For illegal exercise of the profession of banker and attempt to