After Babine and Esimésac, two films directed by Luc Picard which were successful in theaters in 2008 and 2012, the storyteller Fred Pellerin will have the chance to see his fantastic universe adapted to the cinema for a third time. And this time, it is the filmmaker Francis Leclerc who will have the mission of bringing the legendary characters of Saint-Élie-de-Caxton to life on the big screen.
Leclerc (Barefoot in the dawn, A summer without a point or a sure hit) indeed began shooting the film last Tuesday The Time Harvester, a film adaptation of the show of the same title that Pellerin presented on the boards from 2008 to 2011. This feature film that he describes as his most ambitious project to date will bring together Jade Charbonneau, Pier-Luc Funk, Céline Bonnier, Michèle Deslauriers and Marc Messier.
“I cannot reveal the production costs of the film because they are likely to change again due to COVID-19, but I can still say that it is the biggest budget I have worked with in my life, ”said Francis Leclerc during a telephone interview with the Newspaper last week.