Noé Debré To Receive Deadline’s French TV Accolade As His ‘Zorro’ Series Is Set To Make A Mark At The Unifrance Rendez-Vous

Noé Debré will receive the inaugural French TV Disruptor Award from Deadline at the Unifrance Rendez-Vous market in Le Havre. The writer and director will accept the award as his Paramount+ and France Télévisions series Zorro comes to market, starring Jean Dujardin as the iconic masked hero.

Debré co-created the series with Benjamin Charbit. It comes on the heels of his hit show Parlement. He has wrapped work on the fourth and final season of that series, a Franco-German-Belgian copro, which follows Samy Kantor, a young assistant trying to find his way through the labyrinthine inner workings of the European Parliament.

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With Zorro, Debré has taken classic U.S.-originated IP and given it a French action-comedy twist for Paramount+ (selected territories) and France Télévisions. On the small screen, his upcoming projects include an adaptation of ‘Vivre avec nos morts’ (‘Living With Our Dead’) for streamer Max. It tells the story of a female French rabbi.

Deadline’s Disruptors strand is well established with a renowned annual Cannes Disruptors magazine and International Disruptors column.

The accolade for Debré recognizes his TV work, but he’s active in film too, co-writing both Tom McCarthy’s Matt Damon starrer Stillwater and Jacques Audiard’s Palme d’Or winner Dheepan.

Speaking about a body of work spanning various types of TV series and film, Debré tells Deadline that he likes to have several plates spinning. “I really need to be working on several different projects at the same time,” he says. “Otherwise, I sort of get drowned in a project and just start doubting everything. That’s the way I work. And these things also need to be fairly different.”

Debré will accept the Disruptor Award in-person during the Unifrance Rendez-Vous event in Le Havre.

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