Better known in France for male-skewing action and teen comedy, Amazon Prime Video looks to conquer new ground with its raunchy French soap “Escort Boys.” Highlighting the country’s changing gender power dynamics with an eye-candy cast and grown-up jokes, “Escort Boys” looks to build on an interesting momentum as France experiences its most divisive #MeToo moment ever around iconic actor Gerard Depardieu’s downfall.
The timely series, which is the French adaptation of the Israeli show “Johnny and the Knights of Galilee” (“Milk and Honey”) marks the first French scripted title acquired at an early stage by Prime Video for France and English-speaking territories such as North America, the U.K., Australia and New Zealand, along with a string of international territories including Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium and Portugal. As one of the streamer’s major investments in France, “Escort Boys” bowed with a lavish world premiere...
The timely series, which is the French adaptation of the Israeli show “Johnny and the Knights of Galilee” (“Milk and Honey”) marks the first French scripted title acquired at an early stage by Prime Video for France and English-speaking territories such as North America, the U.K., Australia and New Zealand, along with a string of international territories including Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium and Portugal. As one of the streamer’s major investments in France, “Escort Boys” bowed with a lavish world premiere...
- 1/4/2024
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
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