Led by a short, rotund man who carries a briefcase and speaks as if conserving his last reserves of emotion, the heroes of Army of Shadows engage in little of what counts for action these days. And ...

Ronan Bennett has been on a roll for the past few years after being attached to some of the biggest shows on streaming platforms. From Top Boy on Netflix to The Day of the Jackal on Peacock and ...

The Day of the Jackal showrunner Ronan Bennett is reimagining 1969 war movie Army of Shadows for Channel 4 and Canal+, shifting the story from the French World War Two resistance to a near-future ...

France, 1942, under German occupation. Philippe Gerbier, a civil engineer, is a French Resistance commandant. Denounced by a French collaborator, he is interned in a concentration camp. He manages to ...

If your favorite part of Jean-Pierre Melville’s Army Of Shadows, or the 1943 Joseph Kessel novel that inspired the film, was the World War II French Resistance stuff, you’ll be happy to know that none ...

Ronan Bennett is heading back to U.K. network Channel 4 for the first time since his breakout hit “Top Boy.” The BAFTA-winning writer and showrunner, most recently known for creating hit TV shows “The ...

Bennett is teaming with Studiocanal and Patrick Melrose producer Two Cities Television on Army of Shadows, loosely based on Jean Pierre Melville’s movie starring Lino Ventura and Joseph Kessel’s 1943 ...