After Gérard Depardieu, Denis Podalydès takes up the role of Commissioner Maigret at the cinema

For the next adaptation of Maigret and the old men From Georges Simenon, director Pascal Bonitzer chose his hero: Denis Podalydès. The member of the Comédie-Française, which appears in The last breath (2025) alongside Kad Merad, in turn passes the imperprit of Commissioner Maigret, star of literature, television soap operas and cinema. He confirms that he has just finished filming, “A wonderful moment” And that the film should be released next year, without any date being stopped.

The 61 -year -old actor will succeed Gérard Depardieu, the last embodiment dated the character in the film Maigretreleased in 2022. The decision was made by John Simenon, son of Georges Simenon, died on September 4, 1989. In a round table organized in the fall of 2024 at the Jan Michalski Foundation, director Pascal Bonitzer declared that Denis Podalydès could “Express the character in a different and interesting way” that his predecessors.

Trailer Maigret (2022)

The detective novel, published in 1960, should be adapted in another era. Pascal Bonitzer, whose last feature film The stolen tablereleased in May 2024, was a nice success with 370,000 admissions, spoke of an intrigue in the early 2000s with internet references and mobile phones. The shooting gathered Anne Alvaro, Manuel Guillot, Irene Jacob, Micha Lescot and Julia Faure.

This investigation, written in just a few days in June 1960, explores the middle of the old Parisian aristocracy, between the streets of Saint-Dominique, Varenne and the pump). A world of which Maigret does not have the codes. He suspects Jacquette Larrieu to have, out of jealousy, murdered his master, Count Armand de Saint-Hilaire. But the pious governess, on the advice of her confessor, will end up telling a truth to which the policeman hardly expected.

Commissioner Jules Maigret was played 88 times by Jean Richard in the series The investigations of Commissioner Maigret Between 1967 and 1990, then 54 times in fourteen years by Bruno Crémer in the series and TV movies Maigret in the 1990s. His first appearance on the big screen dates from 1932 with The night of the crossroads where Pierre Renoir was. Jean Gabin also interpreted it three times before Maurice Manson, Albert Préjean, Abel Tarride, Harry Baur, Charles Laughton, Michel Simon, Heinz Rühmann, Michael Gambon, Rupert Davies, Rowan Atkinson, Knees Bruss or Gino Cervi do not embody him, with more or less success.