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Netflix hires Jacques Audiard for French horror original adaptation

7/25/2026

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Netflix has hired French director Jacques Audiard to helm a French-language Netflix original adaptation of the horror novel La Nuit ravagée.
Audiard, known for A Prophet and Emilia Pérez, will make his first horror film and joins other high-profile auteurs such as Guillermo del Toro, Lee Chang-dong and Fernando Meirelles creating Netflix originals.
French streaming-window rules demand a 15-month theatrical window, so the film will skip cinemas and launch on Netflix.

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Netflix has hired French director Jacques Audiard to helm a French-language Netflix original adaptation of the horror novel La Nuit ravagée.
Audiard, known for A Prophet and Emilia Pérez, will make his first horror film and joins other high-profile auteurs such as Guillermo del Toro, Lee Chang-dong and Fernando Meirelles creating Netflix originals.
French streaming-window rules demand a 15-month theatrical window, so the film will skip cinemas and launch on Netflix.