When the first five-episode installment dropped, on Jan.
Now a new batch of five episodes — Part 2, as Netflix is calling it — has arrived and is available on Friday worldwide.
“Being a British man, you just think, ‘I could believe that when I see it’ — you don’t want to get excited,” said the creator and showrunner, George Kay, about the success of Part 1.
That “Lupin” sneaked in and took off with the planet’s screen time is quite fitting: After all, Assane learned from his literary hero, the dashing “gentleman thief” Arsène Lupin, that operating in plain sight can be the best way to avoid undue attention.
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Couvreur, of Netflix France, said that another of the series’s strengths is that it does not try to sand out its Gallic specificities.
Hachette, the main Leblanc publisher in France, contacted Netflix several years ago after seeing a news item about the series being in the works.
“In January, we put out an edition of ‘Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Thief’ with the same cover, like something people would have in their library,” Térouanne said in a video interview.
For now at least.” She said that sales had increased internationally, too, with a Korean publisher having signaled interest in replicating the cover seen in the series, followed by houses in Italy, Spain, Poland and Portugal.
But the coastal Norman town of Étretat has already seen an added influx of folks intrigued by the chalk cliffs and pointy rock formation that play a central part in the Lupin mythos and in the nail-biter that ends Part 1 of the show, according to Eric Baudet from the local tourism office.
“That keeps the other half of my brain ticking along and keeps me grounded in not getting too excited about big, big things,” he said.
But yes, Kay is also developing the next “Lupin” installment.