The series is easily appealing based on its good pace and can be considered within the thriller genre. For now, only the first part, consisting of 5 episodes, has been released. It consists of 10 episodes, divided into 2 parts. The series has been released on Netflix on January 8, 2021.
Twenty-five years later, inspired by a book about the gentleman thief Arsène Lupin that his father had given him for his birthday, Assane, now a professional thief, sets out to take revenge on the Pellegrini family, using his charisma to expose Hubert's crimes. While in jail, he hangs himself in his cell out of shame, leaving the teenage Assane an orphan. Assane's father is framed for the theft of an expensive diamond necklace by his employer, the rich and powerful Hubert Pellegrini. Assane is the only son of an immigrant from Senegal who had come to France to seek a better life. Moving on to the series at hand, its protagonist is not the character imagined by Leblanc in 1905 but Assane Diop (played by Omar Sy), an admirer of Arsène Lupin. One could say that Arsène Lupin is a parallel hero to the English Sherlock Holmes.
The novels about Lupin total almost 20 books. Thus was born from Leblanc's hand: Arséne Lupin, a white-collar thief. However, the character made a strong impression on Pierre Laffite and encouraged Leblanc to develop the character. According to the author himself, this was the only Lupin story he had planned. Soon after, he gave him an original entitled "The Arrest of Arsène Lupin". In 1904 Pierre Laffite, the director of Je sais Toutcommissioned him to write a story for his newly founded magazine.
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