In 2019, the former boss of Renault-Nissan, Carlos Ghosn, imprisoned in Japan for financial fraud, took flight aboard a trunk.

Since then, this spectacular fugue continues to fascinate and inspire fiction.

A series, with François Cluzet in the title role, is even being written.   

She was worthy of a gangster movie.

Carlos Ghosn's incredible escape from Japan to Lebanon in 2019 will soon be on screens.

The story takes the form of a mini-series titled

Carlos Ghosn, the Fugitive

.

In the six episodes, the former boss of the Renault-Nissan group will be played by French actor François Cluzet.

A mini-series adapted from a book

At the end of December 2019, the businessman, imprisoned in Japan for financial matters, manages to thwart the surveillance of the Japanese authorities by slipping into a trunk towards his country of origin: Lebanon.

The adventure inspired authors like Régis Arnaud and Yann Rousseau, whose book

Le Fugitif, les secrets de Carlos Ghosn

came out a few months later.

The mini-series will also be adapted.

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And to achieve this heavy task of adaptation, Frédéric Osmont is on the move.

The author is used to stories in finance.

He notably wrote a fierce satire of the banking world in

Le Capital

.

Finally, the realization is entrusted to Frédéric Jardin.

In particular, he directed a few episodes of the police intrigues

Engrenages

and

Braquo

.

"We discuss with the older ones"

Frédéric Jardin also promises that this project will be a thriller with all the codes of the genre and not a simple biopic.

For now, the series is being written and negotiated with broadcasters.

"We discuss with the greatest," assures the Federation production company.

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Carlos Ghosn definitely inspires screenwriters.

Another series is already in preparation as well as a documentary.

These two programs are co-produced by French and Saudi groups.