After the Hays code, the Bolloré code? The owner of the Canal+ group, Vincent Bolloré, would have demanded changes to the plot of the series Paris Police 1900, whose filming for season 2 has just started for five months, according to information from the Chained Duckreleased on Wednesday.
Season 2 was originally supposed to evoke the law of separation of Church and State, promulgated on December 9, 1905. “The script had to be rewritten, the team is under enormous pressure”, assured an anonymous protagonist to the weekly. Canal+, requested by the journalist from Chained DuckIsabelle Barret, declined to comment.
In this season 2 of this ambitious polar against a backdrop of political thriller created by Fabien Nury, directed by Julien Despaux and Frédéric Balekdjian, produced by Emmanuel Daucé for Tetra Media Fiction and Fabien Nury for AFPI, the hero, Antoine Jouin, criminal inspector (Jérémie Laheurte), will lead the investigation in 1904 in the world of prostitution when “the morality police clean the streets of Paris of their prostitutes on the order of the prefect Lépine” and that “the corpse of a man is found in the Bois de Boulogne, ”says a press release from Canal +.
“Religion or homosexuality, it’s complicated”
“With Bolloré, everything that revolves around religion or homosexuality is complicated,” says a former manager of Canal +, still in the columns of Le Canard enchaîné.
As the newspaper points out, the billionaire’s intrusion into a production is not a first. According to a survey published in The world in 2021, Vincent Bolloré is responsible for stopping Canal+ financing of François Ozon’s film which talks about child crime in the Church, Thanks to God.
It is to the billionaire that we owe the end of the financing of the series of the Larrieu brothers, heavy. “It was a thriller, but the title was disturbing, he didn’t want it to overshadow the city and the pilgrimages”, concedes an actor of the time to the Chained Duck.
Vincent Bolloré, however, gave the green light to the bonus broadcast on Canal+ of thanks boss, the film by François Ruffin, because this documentary attacks another billionaire, Bernard Arnault. “My personal ability to impose things is not very important”, had however affirmed the boss of Vivendi, owner of the houses Lagardère and Canal Plus, during his hearing in the Senate on the concentration of the media.