Audrey Fleurot reinvents The Count of Monte Cristo for TF1

She will become The Countess of Monte Cristo, in a rereading of the novel by Alexandre Dumas.

A few weeks after saying goodbye to Morgane Alvaro, Audrey Fleurot remains loyal to TF1. The HPI star takes on Alexandre Dumas this time, playing a new and feminine version of the Count of Monte Cristo.

A year after the immense success of the film by Pierre Niney (10.5 million admissions in France), while France 2 filmed an ambitious European co-production by Bille August (with Sam Claflin, Jeremy Irons and Ana Girardot, scheduled for 2026), and M6 has just announced a reality TV game inspired by the novel, TF1 is releasing its own rereading.

Presented as a “free and daring adaptation”, the series focuses on Mercédès Herrera, who is no longer content to be a spectator of the tragedy. Here, Edmond Dantès dies and it is his fiancée who takes over the vengeance. To fully understand, you must read this detailed synopsis:

“Marseille, 1815. Mercédès Herrera is ready to do anything for the man she loves, Edmond Dantès, a sailor promised a brilliant future. But their happiness is shattered by a merciless betrayal. Wrongly accused, Edmond is torn from Mercédès and thrown into the depths of the Château d’If. Devastated but determined, Mercédès tries to save him – in vain. Edmond is killed during of their escape, and she herself is imprisoned in a neighboring cell. Consumed by grief, Mercédès has only one goal: to take revenge on those who destroyed her life – Fernand, her cousin in love with her; Danglars, an ambitious man without scruples; and above all Héloïse de Villefort, the implacable wife of the prosecutor.”

Around Audrey Fleurot, we will find Simon Ehrlacher, Zabou Breitman, Esteban Vial, Marysole Fertard, Thibault Bonenfant, Thierry Godard, Maxime Lelue, Wael Sersoub, Denis Lavant, Éric Elmosnino, Olivia Côte and Kad Merad.

The series, co-produced and partly co-directed by Djibril Glissant, partner of Audrey Fleurot, is also directed by Leonardo D’Antoni. The screenplay is by Gaïa Guasti, Clément Peny, Florian Spitzer and Djibril Glissant.

This 8 x 52 minute mini-series has just started filming between Malta and the Czech Republic. No release date yet.