Paris (AFP)
Director Guillaume Nicloux will adapt on a big screen "Soumission", the controversial novel by Michel Houellebecq who imagined the coming to power in France of a president from a Muslim political party in 2022, indicates a press release from the production.
The actor Jean-Paul Rouve ("Le Sens de la Fête", "Les Tuches") was chosen for the main role. The rest of the casting is underway.
A first project evoked a series but it is a feature film that plans to shoot from September the director, who also co-signed the script.
Guillaume Nicloux has already shown his closeness to the author of "Particules elementaires" by filming him in "Thalasso", a comic huis clos released last year with Gérard Depardieu, in "L'Enlouverture de Michel Houellebecq", produced for Arte in 2014, and "The Gordji Affair: the story of a cohabitation" in 2012 on Canal +.
"Soumission", a novel of anticipation, was released the same day as the attack on Charlie Hebdo, on January 7, 2015. It remained for several weeks at the top of sales in France, Germany and Italy and passed more than two million copies.
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