Luc Picard is excited about the idea of directing the TV series about the Stastny brothers and could even play a role in this production, which tells the story of how the Slovak trio fled their country to live with the Quebec Nordiques in the early 1980s.
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“My commitment? Directing first, but probably acting too, I don’t know. “We’ll see, there’s still a long way to go, it’s not written,” confided Luc Picard, whom Le Journal met on the sidelines of his participation at the Le Diamant theater in the play The Riopelle Project.
Last month we learned that producer Christian Larouche is working on the adaptation of journalist Robert Laflamme’s 2012 book Les Stastny: le coup de genius de Gilles Léger.
He wants to turn it into a television series with six one-hour episodes, which will be called Operation Stastny and whose script will be written by Érik K. Boulianne, Jean-François Leblanc and Marc-André Rioux.
“Christian talked to me about it seven or eight months ago,” says Luc Picard. Yes, that is something that interests me. More the political side than the hockey side. The repatriation of the Stastnys is a good spy story. What I find interesting after that is discovering Quebec through their eyes. When they get here it’s a bit like a circus, there was such a hype. They were well received and adapted very well.”
If the producer manages to complete his financing, which is estimated at $1.1 million or $1.2 million per episode, he plans to begin filming in 2025.