Quasimodo

Netflix is producing a retelling of the life of Quasimodo, the man said to have inspired Victor Hugo’s bell-ringer in The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.

Vincent Cassel (La Haine, The Three Musketeers) has been cast in the titular role. Jean-Francois Richet (Mesrine, Plane) is directing a script penned by Eric Besnard (Wrath of Man). Produced by Clément Miserez and Matthieu Warter at Radar Films, a Mediawan company.

Set in Paris on the eve of the July Revolution (1830), this film reimagines the life of the man said to have inspired Victor Hugo’s iconic character, Quasimodo. As the cholera epidemic spreads through the city, he’s caught between political turmoil and an impossible love.