Overview

• The new series 'Monsieur Spade' features Clive Owen as Sam Spade, a character from Dashiell Hammett's novel 'The Maltese Falcon', set 20 years after the events of the novel with Spade semi-retired in the south of France.
• The series is created by Scott Frank and Tom Fontana, who were inspired to explore what happens to a character like Sam Spade as he ages and faces the consequences of his lifestyle.
• Clive Owen, a self-proclaimed 'crazy Bogart fan', prepared extensively for the role, studying Humphrey Bogart's speech patterns and learning French phonetically.
• The series, which premieres on AMC, is set against the backdrop of the end of the Algerian War in the early '60s and follows a new Sam Spade mystery.
• While the creators and Owen have discussed potential ideas for future seasons, they are waiting to see the reception of the current series before making any decisions.