Louis Peres plays Gabriel Ferraud (Image: Caroline Dubois / Federation Studio France / Esprits Frappeurs / CANAL+)
By Jon Donnis
The BBC is bringing a gritty new French drama to iPlayer and BBC Four called The Sentinels. It is an eight part series that takes the First World War and flips it on its head by mixing historical espionage with heavy sci-fi elements. The show is based on the graphic novels by Xavier Dorison and Enrique Breccia.
The story follows a soldier named Gabriel Ferraud who gets badly injured during the early days of the war. Instead of being sent home, he is pulled into a clandestine military experiment. They inject him with a serum that turns him into a super soldier with massive strength and speed. He becomes part of an elite squad known as the Sentinels, but as he fights on the front lines, he starts to realise the program has some dark secrets that might change the course of the war entirely.
The series was directed by Thierry Poiraud and Édouard Salier, with a cast featuring Louis Peres as Gabriel. Other actors like Thibaut Evrard and Kacey Mottet-Klein also star in the production.
Nick Lee, who handles acquisitions for the BBC, described the show as an adrenaline-fueled experience. He mentioned that it feels like a mix of steampunk and something more modern like RoboCop, but it still has the emotional depth of a story like Frankenstein. It sounds like it will be quite a visceral and unique watch for British audiences.
The show was produced by Federation Studio France and Esprits Frappeurs for CANAL+. STUDIOCANAL is managing the international distribution for the series.
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