2023-10-11 20:21:00
As the legendary soap opera prepares to make its return to TF1 in 2024, the production company Newen lifts a corner of the veil on this new season, filming of which is due to begin at the end of October.
The Mistral is preparing to return to service. While filming of the series Plus belle la vie is due to begin on October 23, the production company Newen lifts a corner of the veil on this new version of the soap opera returning to TF1, following its stop on France 3 last year.
First novelty: the decorations. According to information from BFM Marseille Provence, Newen plans to use the bar on the Place de l’Église in Allauch as the main venue for the 2024 version of More beautiful life.
If the change of look of the place “is not yet finished”, the legendary bar of the series will keep its original name “Le Mistral” and will also be the central point of the intrigue of the first episode of this new season, assures Vincent Meslet, program director at Newen at BFM Marseille Provence. The broadcast date of the new season remains “secret”.
“Highlight the region”
Plus belle la vie will also always be filmed 50% in the studio and 50% on location. The pace of filming also remains similar with one episode written and produced per day, which will be the same length as before.
In total, more than 1000 people will work throughout the year on this new version of Plus belle la vie according to Vincent Meslet. “This represents 200 jobs per day and 75% of people are from the region,” he explains.
“We wanted to highlight the region, to ventilate it. ‘Plus belle la vie’ had a very studio notion, it will be less studio this time,” adds the Newen program director.
On the casting side, as TF1 announced last July, the 2024 version of Plus belle la vie will feature many former key actors from the soap opera. Fans of the series will thus find Laurent Kérusoré (Thomas Marci), Sylvie Flepp (Mirta Torres), Léa François (Barbara Évenot), Cécilia Hornus (Blanche Marci), Stéphane Hénon (Jean-Paul Boher) and even Lola Marois (Ariane Hersant ).
The Minister of Culture Rima Abdul Malak also went to the studios of , located at Belle de Mai in Marseille, this Wednesday with local elected officials to meet the actors of the soap opera.
A nod to Roland Marci
Since the announcement of its return to TF1, Plus belle la vie has been marked by the death last May of actor Michel Cordes, who played the legendary Roland Marci. A “nod” must be given to the actor in the new season, confides Vincent Meslet, to pay homage to his emblematic character.
The series was also troubled by the disappearance of actor Marwan Berreni, who disappeared following hitting a young woman by car on August 3. If the production had assured La Provence at the beginning of September that the role of the actor “would not be taken over by anyone else” in this new season, the Newem company specifies that the accident will not be mentioned in the series.
After 4,665 episodes and 18 years of existence, the series Plus belle la vie – considered the longest soap opera in the history of French television – bowed out on November 19, 2022 on France 3 before being relaunched by TF1 mid-July.
The announcement of the end of the series in May 2022 by France Télévisions caused a shock wave among its fans, become fewer in number over the years (between 5.6 and 6.4 million viewers at the start for 2.3 million at the end) but also in Marseille, where its filming had generated a real economy for several years.
Carla Loridan with Manon Mugica
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