It is a great success.

Less than two weeks after its release, the French series "Lupine", carried by Omar Sy, explodes the counters on Netflix. 

This is only a projection, but the figure is dizzy: by February 5, or 28 days after its release, 70 million households around the world should have watched the series "Lupine, dans le 'Arsène ", according to figures from the platform, communicated to AFP on Tuesday January 19.

A record for a French series.

Netflix does not provide exact viewing figures.

But for certain programs, it gives indications, orders of magnitude and projections according to the first weeks of broadcast.

Concretely, this means that the creation of the duo George Kay ("Criminal", "Killing Eve") and François Uzan ("Family Business") is on par with the biggest successes of the platform.

Foremost among them is Scott Frank's mini-series, "The Lady's Game", an end-of-year 2020 event series, which has been viewed by 62 million people.

"Lupine" is also set to dethrone the famous Spanish detective series "La Casa de Papel", winner of the 2018 Emmy Award for best drama series, whose fourth season, released last April, was watched by some 65 million people, details the platform to AFP.

Figures that did not escape the first interested, Omar Sy: "70 million is crazy! So proud that Lupine is THE first French Netflix series to meet such international success! Without you, it would not have been possible Thank you all, "enthused the interpreter of" Intouchables "on his Twitter account.

EM tweet Sy Lupine

70 million is crazy!


So proud that Lupine is THE first French Netflix series to meet such international success!


Without you, this would not have been possible.


Thanks everyone 🙏🏾🇫🇷 https://t.co/6v0qgpbPqf pic.twitter.com/wfeim80VMu

- Omar Sy (@OmarSy) January 19, 2021

Produced by Gaumont and composed of ten episodes - only five of them are currently online - the series has ranked number 1 in a dozen countries including the United States, Vietnam, Argentina, Brazil or Spain again.

Lupine greeted abroad

At the heart of this project, a bet: to modernize the myth of a character who has been embodied many times on the screen, by adapting it to the 21st century.

Exit, therefore, the top hat and the monocle, the favorite actor of the French does not play the hero invented in 1905 by Maurice Leblanc, but Assane Diop, an admirer of Arsène Lupine, anchored in today's Paris. .

This father is inspired by the gentleman burglar to deceive the rich and the powerful, and avenge his father, who died 25 years earlier after being accused of a crime he did not commit.

If the public success was very quickly at the rendezvous, the foreign press did not fail to greet the series either.

The Canadian daily The Globe and Mail writes about "a magnificent mix" and the Chicago Tribune writes about "the James Bond elegance of (Omar) Sy with a subtle charisma that hooks you".

"Lupine, another great project from Omar Sy on Netflix!", Reacted in mid-January, on Twitter, the actress of Basic Instict, Sharon Stone.

EM tweet Stone Lupine

LUPINE another great @OmarSy project on @netflix !!

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻💥

- Sharon Stone (@sharonstone) January 15, 2021

"Lupine" is not the first French series created by Netflix, which has accelerated its production of original content in France in recent years, but it is the one that has been best received.

In 2016, the critics had rolled "Marseille", his first French series with Gérard Depardieu.

In France, a sign of the magnitude of the Lupine phenomenon, the books by Maurice Leblanc, from which the series is inspired, are at the top of sales on the Amazon.fr site.

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