Saturday, 3 October 2026

New Fantômas series to be based more closely on novels by Souvestre and Allain

Film still: a man with a blue bald head and black gloves sits in a chair at a desk with telephones, a candelabrum with candles beside him.

Fantômas is to return to the screen as the hero of a new series. The new holders of the rights to adapt the novels about the first European superhero assure us that the image of the legendary hooded villain will now be far closer to the original texts of Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain

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