The film, produced in English, will be shot live under the direction of Cédric Nicolas-Troyan, who signed the big budget film The Hunter and the Ice Queen, with Chris Hemsworth and Jessica Chastain.
A major challenge. A Belgian producer has announced the project of adapting for the cinema, in live action, The Yellow Mark, album by Blake and Mortimer considered one of the masterpieces of comics. Production on this English-language film is scheduled to begin in the fall, with casting targeting “English actors aged 30 to 40, but not closed to Hollywood stars”announced a spokesperson for the Belga Films Group company to AFP.
The direction of this European production is entrusted to Cédric Nicolas-Troyan, who worked on the recent Netflix series Furies and signed a big budget film in 2016 with Chris Hemsworth, Charlize Theron and Jessica Chastain, The Hunter and the Ice Queen. Belgian director Jan Kounen worked on the script. Filming should begin this fall in Belgium, according to Le Parisien. “We hope for a release for Christmas 2025. At the latest, in the first half of 2026”declared Patrick Vandenbosh, the producer, to our colleagues.
The Yellow Mark, released as an album in 1956, is one of the flagship works of Franco-Belgian comics and the clear line. Francis Blake and Philip Mortimer investigate a mysterious criminal in London who signs his crimes with an M and ridicules Scotland Yard. This is one of the first plots of Blake and Mortimer, one of the biggest successes in comics, available in around thirty volumes and sold more than 20 million copies in 15 languages. Adapting this gem of the ninth art to the big screen is a real challenge: “ We will of course be loyal to this formidable trio, Blake, Mortimer and Olrik, the villain. But we are going to expand to all the characters in the universe created by Jacobs and play more on comedy and humor. There will also be, what we don’t find in comics, two beautiful female roles”specified Patrick Vandenbosh still at the Parisian.
