Wassim Beji, the French producer of “Boite noire,” and SND have acquired the adaptation rights to iconic French detective novels “Fantomas” and are planning a film and a series based on the franchise.

Guillaume Canet, Romain Duris, Lyna Khoudri and Louis Peres have been announced for the cast of a feature film reboot of Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain’s iconic Fantômas franchise about a criminal ...