Overview
- Netflix, which announced the option and Audiard’s attachment on Friday, has commissioned a French-language adaptation of Jean-Baptiste Del Amo’s La Nuit ravagée for its streaming service.
- The novel is set in a fictional suburb outside Toulouse in the early 1990s and follows a group of teenagers drawn to an ominous abandoned house while exploring racism, homophobia and domestic violence through a horror lens.
- The film marks a genre shift for Audiard, who won major awards for Emilia Pérez and is expected to bring social realism and psychological depth rather than a straight genre exercise.
- Because Netflix will distribute the picture, the film will likely face France’s 15-month theatrical window for streamer-backed titles, which could limit immediate cinema runs and complicate festival and release planning.
- An English translation of the book is expected in 2027 and production and release details remain unannounced, so observers say the project will be one to watch for festival placement and how Netflix navigates French exhibition rules.