He's best known for his hilarious on-screen alter-egos Mr
Bean, Johnny English and, of course, Blackadder.
But funnyman Rowan Atkinson is set to return to the nation's
TV screens in a far more serious guise.
The British actor is to star in a remake of French detective
series Maigret, as the pipe-smoking Parisian detective Jules Maigret in two
feature-length episodes for ITV, based on the novels by Georges Simenon.
Atkinson said of his new role: 'I have been a devourer of
the Maigret novels for many years and I'm very much looking forward to playing
such an intriguing character, at work in Paris during a fascinating period in
its history.'
The remake, starring the beloved Atkinson, follows in the
footsteps of Michael Gambon, who took on a portrayal of the detective in the
early 1990s.
Set in Paris in the 1950s, the first of the couple of
two-hour long films, Maigret Sets A Trap, will go into production in September
2015, produced by Ealing Studios.
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