Season Two for Jim Donovan’s TV series LE CLAN

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Following its strong showing at Série Mania 2015 in Paris last April, LE CLAN is slated to begin production for a second season in August.

The show stars Sébastien Ricard, Louis-Philippe Dandenault, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Roger Léger, Karinne Lagueux, and Luc Senay.

LE CLAN is quite distinct from other Quebec shows in that it features the Acadian landscape, accents as well as talent; the production base is in Shediac, New Brunswick.

Snitch Yannick Moreau is now safely married with children and lives on a ranch under an assumed name with his criminal past firmly behind him. But all this will change when his very vengeful father and three brothers are freed from prison.

Produced by Casablanca who brought us the very successful TV show SÉRIE NOIRE and Productions Phare-est, LE CLAN is a family thriller steeped in the Acadian province’s culture, and built  around a character who is secretly riddled with his past betrayal and the challenges of the new life his new identity brings him.

Also, please read the interview Jim gave to DGC’s MONTAGE.

James Franco to Helm and Star in a Steve Janas Script

James Franco has come on board to direct and produce William Gay’s “The Long Home,” a coming-of-age story set in rural Tennessee in the 1940s. The book was adapted by Woolf + Lapin writer Steve Janas and Rabbit Bandini producer Vince Jolivette.

Franco and Jolivette will produce through their Rabbit Bandini Films.

“The story centers on a young and headstrong Tennessee carpenter who lost his father years before to a human evil and is forced to make difficult moral choices to face up to that evil. “The Long Home” was Gay’s debut novel and won the 1999 James A. Michener Memorial Prize.”

Cameras start rolling this May. Actors on board include: Josh Hartnett, Ashton Kutcher, Zoe Levin, Tim Blake Nelson, Timothy Hutton, Giancarlo Esposito, Courtney Love, and Josh Hutcherson.

Congratulations to writer Steve Janas!