Netflix sets Nov. 27 for Vincent Cassel's Hunchback film
Jean-François Richet's film imagines the man who may have inspired Victor Hugo's Quasimodo, and it lands on Netflix worldwide on the same day.
*The Hunchback, Soul of Paris* arrives on Netflix on Nov. 27, released in every country the service covers on the same day. Jean-François Richet directs, with Vincent Cassel in the lead, and it has little in common with Disney's animated version.
The story is set in Paris in 1830, amid a revolt and a cholera outbreak. A hunchbacked stonemason, hunted by the police, risks everything to save the dancer he loves. By the official synopsis, he inspires Victor Hugo's most famous character. Richet presents it as a plausible premise, not as history.
The trailer has been on Netflix's YouTube channel since late October. In French the film is called *Quasimodo, l'âme de Paris*.
It is the fourth film for Cassel and Richet, after the two *Mesrine* films and *The Emperor of Paris*. Éric Besnard and Edgar Marie wrote the script, and Radar Films produced it. Karim Leklou, Daphné Patakia, Benjamin Voisin and Noémie Lvovsky also star.
It reaches Mexico on Friday, Nov. 27.
