Jules Meets Frank Martin Again the Transporter
| Transporter: The Series | |
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 English logo | |
| Genre | Action/Adventure Thriller |
| Based on | Transporter past Luc Besson Robert Marker Kamen |
| Adult by | Alexander Ruemelin |
| Directed by |
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| Starring |
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| Theme music composer | Geddy Lee Alex Lifeson |
| Opening theme | "Working Homo" Written by Rush Arranged by Jamie Forsyth Performed by Danielle Armstrong |
| Composer | Nathaniel Méchaly |
| Land of origin | France Canada Deutschland |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | two |
| No. of episodes | 24 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Brad Turner Fred Fuchs Timothy J. Lea |
| Producers | Susan Murdoch Klaus Zimmermann |
| Production locations | French republic, Canada, Germany |
| Cinematography | David Herrington Stephen Reizes |
| Editors | Roslyn Kalloo Stephen Lawrence Eric Goddard David B. Thompson Don Cassidy |
| Photographic camera setup | Single-photographic camera |
| Running time | 45 minutes |
| Production companies | Atlantique Productions QVF Inc. |
| Release | |
| Original network | RTL (Frg) M6 (France) HBO Canada (Canada, English) Super Écran 1 (Canada, French) |
| Picture format | HDTV |
| Sound format | Surround |
| Offset shown in | Germany |
| Original release | 11 October 2012 (2012-10-11) – 14 Dec 2014 (2014-12-fourteen) |
Transporter: The Series (French: Le Transporteur : la série ) is an English language-language French-Canadian action-thriller television serial, a spinoff from the Transporter film series created by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen, with Chris Vance taking over the part of Frank Martin for the series. It was co-produced by the French Atlantique Productions and the Canadian bazaar entertainment company QVF, Inc. The serial was broadcast by M6, RTL Television, The Moving picture Network, and Movie Central. Originally, HBO and Cinemax were involved,[1] but they dropped out in 2013.[2]
Twelve episodes were ordered in 2012 for the first season with an overall budget of US$xl meg or €30 1000000.[1] The show premiered that year on 11 October in Germany on RTL, and on 6 December in France on M6. The Canadian premiere was on four Jan 2013 on HBO Canada and Super Écran 1 (with the first episode available online from 18 December 2012).[3] The series started dissemination in Republic of india on 25 Jan 2013 on Sony PIX, and premiered in the The states on TNT on 18 October 2014. Twelve more episodes were ordered for season 2, which began production in Morocco in February 2014.[iv] Season ii premiered in Canada on 5 October 2014 on The Moving-picture show Network and Moving-picture show Fundamental,[five] and in the United States on TNT on 29 November 2014.[6] On 26 November 2015, it was appear that the series was cancelled and would not be renewed for a third flavor.[7] [ improve source needed ]
Overview [edit]
The series follows the events and concept of the motion-picture show trilogy, continuing the adventures of Frank Martin, a professional person freelance courier driver for hire who volition deliver annihilation, anywhere for the correct price, and lives by 3 "unbreakable" rules, which he frequently breaks. Chris Vance takes over the role of Frank from Jason Statham and was joined in season one past Andrea Osvárt equally his office manager Carla Valeri, Charly Hübner as mechanic Dieter Hausmann and François Berléand, the merely returning thespian from the film serial, reprising his function as Inspector Tarconi.[8] The second season added Violante Placido as Caterina "Cat" Boldieu, his new booking agent. Unlike Carla, who did not return for the second season, True cat usually joins Frank on his adventures.[ix]
Episodes [edit]
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | DVD & Blu-ray release engagement | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Region 2 | ||||||
| Flavor premiere | Flavor finale | Frg | French republic | |||
| 1 | 12 | xi October 2012 (2012-x-11) | 3 January 2013 (2013-01-03) | 21 Dec 2012 (2012-12-21) | 23 January 2013 (2013-01-23) | |
| 2 | 12 | 5 Oct 2014 (2014-10-05) | 14 Dec 2014 (2014-12-14) | N/A | North/A | |
Cast [edit]
- Chris Vance as Frank Martin, known as the Transporter: a professional highly skilled commuter for hire. A former SAS and Special Forces operative, he offers his transporter services without asking whatever questions, to whomever is willing to pay his price. His lawmaking of acquit is very strict, his precision driving and his combat skills allow him to survive the most dangerous criminals throughout his missions. Very secretive, Frank trusts only a handful of people: his agent Carla, his mechanic Dieter, and a French law inspector named Tarconi. His circle of friends volition abound with the arrival of Juliette, a mysterious woman interested in his work.
- Andrea Osvárt as Carla Valeri (season 1): a computer expert, she assists in Frank'southward missions past negotiating with clients and providing him with information from an office in Nice.
- François Berléand as Inspector Tarconi (season 1; recurring in season two): Frank's reluctant constabulary officer friend. Stationed in Nice, Tarconi has in the past investigated Frank. Now friends, Tarconi takes care of his business firm in Cap Roux when Frank's on a mission. Frank turns to him when he needs an official police intervention, but always in a way that Tarconi tin deny any interest with the Transporter. He maintains his condition as an officer of the police but allows Frank to bend the rules somewhat.
- Delphine Chanéac as Juliette Dubois (season i): a DCRI amanuensis investigating the Transporter network, while posing as Frank'southward cute and romantic neighbour. She is torn between her spying and her growing attraction for Frank. Earlier on in the projection, the character was a reporter named Olivia.[viii]
- Charly Hübner as Dieter Hausmann (season 1 & flavor 2 premiere): a engineering expert who helps Frank with his car. He is Frank's confidant and an unparalleled mechanic who repairs and modifies his Audi at will. Whether Frank needs special tires, suspensions or fake plates, Dieter is always in that location when Frank needs him.[ten] Dieter is killed in the premiere of season 2.
- Violante Placido as Caterina "Cat" Boldieu (season two): a spy for French intelligence who get-go met Frank when he rescued her from captivity in North Africa. Now two years later, Cat has come up to work for Frank[9] equally his new booking agent.
- Marking Rendall as Jules Faroux (recurring in season 2): a computer adept working for a rival transporter that crosses paths with Frank in the second-season episode "T2", Jules soon joins Frank's and True cat'due south team.
- Dhaffer Fifty'Abidine as Olivier Dassin (recurring in season ii): The cold-blooded Dassin is the second-best transporter in the world and Frank'south rival and old nemesis. Frank is forced to team upwards with him to acquit out the job.
- Elyse Levesque equally Zara Knight (recurring in season two): A former Un Diplomat and Frank's love involvement from the by who was presumed expressionless and was abducted by Dassin on the orders of an artillery dealer called Burton. She has a son whose male parent, unbeknownst to him, is Frank.
Production [edit]
The pilot was directed by long-time Lost managing director Stephen Williams.[8] Other directors working on the prove include Bruce McDonald (Degrassi: The Next Generation, Queer as Folk) and Andy Mikita, known for working on several shows including Stargate Universe and SyFy'south Sanctuary. The only writer who has been confirmed so far is Carl Folder, also a Stargate Universe alumnus.
Originally Canadian Television veterans Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie known for their work on Stargate Universe served every bit show runners, and co-wrote the pilot. According to The Hollywood Reporter they were replaced afterwards two episodes by British director Steve Shill (Dexter, Law & Lodge: Criminal Intent, The Tudors) and Canadian veteran supervising producer Karen Wookey (Andromeda, Mutant 10).[xi] However, Shill left the project in January 2012 without an immediate successor in place.[12]
Shooting locations included Paris, Berlin, and Prissy, however the majority of the filming was done in Toronto, Ontario.[13] In Oct 2011, filming on the series was halted later Chris Vance was injured in an on-gear up blow. The remaining scenes were supposed to exist shot in Toronto during the spring of 2012.[12] The show was shot with Arri Alexa, Canon C300 and GoPro cameras.[14]
On 26 November 2015, information technology was announced that the series had been cancelled.[7]
Cars [edit]
| Season | Manufacturer | Model |
|---|---|---|
| ane | Audi | A8 Security |
| i | Audi | R8 (nicknamed Sofie) |
Broadcast [edit]
The series started airing out-of-order on RTL in Germany on 11 Oct 2012 at a footstep of i weekly episode in prime number fourth dimension on Thursdays with a Goggle box-12 rating.[15] The evidence's run in the country ended on xx December, leaving two episodes unaired.
In France the evidence started on six December 2012 on M6, also in prime number time on Thursdays, but with a Idiot box-x rating and at an initial pace of three episodes per dark for two weeks, followed by a "two new episodes plus i rerun" per night footstep after a week-long hiatus, and ended on 10 January 2013. Viewers were given the selection between watching the show in dubbed French or in its original English with optional subtitles, thanks to M6's dual audio streams. Season #2 began airing in France on 1 Jan 2015.
Transporter: The Series started airing on HBO Canada and Super Écran one (in dubbed French) on four January 2013 with a special 2-hour premiere comprising the episodes Trojan Horsepower and Payback, after which one episode was broadcast weekly, Fridays at 9 PM. Prior to that, the episode Trojan Horsepower was bachelor to sentry for gratis on HBO Canada's website and diverse Canadians streaming services starting xviii December 2012.[3] Flavor #i concluded in Canada on fifteen March 2013. Flavor #two began airing in Canada on The Flick Network and Movie Key, with back-to-dorsum episodes, on v Oct 2014.[ citation needed ]
In Australia, information technology premiered on 20 March 2013 on FX.[16] In New Zealand, the show started on 13 June 2014 on The Box on SKY TV (New Zealand).[ citation needed ]
In UK, the bear witness started on 12 July 2015 on Channel 5. In the United States, TNT appear in January 2014 that it had picked up Transporter: The Series,[4] and began airing the show with back-to-back episodes on Saturday, 18 October 2014. TNT'due south sis network through Time Warner, Cinemax was previously due to air the series, just at the Tv set Critics Association 2013 Summer Printing Tour confirmed that they would terminate their interest with the serial without showing information technology after all.[2] The premiere of flavor #two aired on 29 Nov 2014 on TNT, which immediately followed the completion of the airing of season #1 the calendar week before.[ citation needed ]
Episode guild and alternative versions [edit]
Confusingly, RTL in Germany, M6 in France and TNT in the U.South., have all aired the starting time-flavor episodes in different orders, as compared to those shown by HBO/SE1 in Canada and Channel five in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, which accept been shown sequentially, as detailed below:
| Episode | Prod. code[17] | Canada, Dutch, Netflix, et al. | French | German | U.S. | UK |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Trojan Horsepower" | 112 | i | 2 | vii | i | 1 |
| "Payback" | 106 | 2 | 12 | five | 6 | ii |
| "The General'southward Daughter" (Airplane pilot) | 101 | 3 | 1 | i | nine | 3 |
| "Harvest" | 104 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 4 |
| "Dead Drop" | 108 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 5 |
| "Hot Water ice" | 109 | 6 | 9 | 8 | three | 6 |
| "Give the Guy a Paw" | 110 | 7 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 7 |
| "Sharks" | 103 | eight | 5 | 6 | iv | viii |
| "City of Honey" | 107 | 9 | vii | ix | 10 | 9 |
| "The Switch" | 105 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 8 | x |
| "12 Hours" | 102 | 11 | 6 | 12 | 5 | 11 |
| "Cherchez la Femme" | 111 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 12 | 12 |
It is unclear at this bespeak what the "proper", intended social club for the episodes is. Based on the chronology of events, the Canadian release nigh likely carries the correct order of episodes.[ original research? ] This is farther supported by the fact that Flemish channel 2BE, Dutch channel RTL 5, and Netflix also air the episodes according to the Canadian order.[18] The German home video release presents the episodes as they were broadcast on RTL, calculation the two unaired episodes ("Give the Guy a Manus" and "12 Hours") equally episodes 11 and 12 respectively. It is unknown what guild the forthcoming French and potential North American home video releases will reflect. It is notwithstanding certain that different other shows, production gild should non exist followed, as "Trojan Horsepower" was the concluding episode to exist shot yet features the showtime meeting betwixt Frank and Juliette, two characters who interact in other episodes, and is as well the episode where Frank first sees the ruddy Audi R8 which appears in most subsequently episodes. "Trojan Horsepower" served as the pilot episode in Canada and the United states of america, the second episode in France and the seventh in Germany; the latter 2 countries both aired "The General's Daughter" as the pilot episode, which had in fact been announced in the media as the pilot when production started.[ citation needed ]
In addition, at least some episodes reportedly have three different edits depending on the country of broadcast.[19]
DVD releases [edit]
On 3 March 2015, 20th Century Play a joke on Home Entertainment released the complete first season on DVD in Region one.[twenty] The consummate second flavour was released on ix June 2015.[21]
References [edit]
- ^ a b Roxborough, Scott (20 May 2011). "RTL Joins HBO's 'Transporter' Serial as Co-Producer". The Hollywood Reporter. Los Angeles, California. Retrieved 28 November 2014.
- ^ a b "HBO at TCA: "Treme" to Return December one; Cinemax Exits "Transporter"". The Futon Critic. 25 July 2013. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
- ^ a b Balen, Nicolle; McCorquodale, Owen (12 Dec 2012). "Transporter: The Series Revs Upwardly on HBO Canada" (PDF). HBO Canada. Canada. [ permanent dead link ]
- ^ a b Andreeva, Nellie (23 January 2014). "TNT Acquires 'Transporter' Series For Autumn". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved 28 Nov 2014.
- ^ "Adrenaline-Fueled Original Drama TRANSPORTER – THE SERIES Returns on The Film Network and Movie Central, October 5" (Press release). Corus Entertainment. 28 Baronial 2014. Retrieved xiii Oct 2014.
- ^ "Transporter: The Series (TNT) - Listings". The Futon Critic. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
- ^ a b "Transporter: The Series: Cancelled; No Season Three". TV Series Finale . Retrieved seven December 2015.
- ^ a b c Goldberg, Lesley (23 June 2011). "'Transporter': 'Lost's' Stephen Williams to Helm Pilot (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Los Angeles, California.
- ^ a b Tartaglione, Nancy (7 April 2014). "MIPTV: Italian Extra Violante Placido Joins 'Transporter – The Serial'". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved 28 Nov 2014.
- ^ Jeffery, Morgan (28 July 2011). "'Transporter' TV series casts three more". Digital Spy. United Kingdom.
- ^ Leffler, Rebecca; Vlessing, Etan (27 September 2011). "Will 'Transporter' Evangelize?". The Hollywood Reporter. Los Angeles, California.
- ^ a b Jeffery, Morgan (twenty January 2012). "'Transporter' Tv series loses second showrunner in five months". Digital Spy. United Kingdom.
- ^ Vlessing, Etan (31 March 2012). "MIPTV: v Lessons Learned From 'Transporter' Flameout". The Hollywood Reporter. Los Angeles, California. Retrieved 28 Nov 2014.
- ^ "Transporteur – la série bientôt sur M6, Episode four : Une histoire de caméras" (in French).
- ^ Transporter on fernsehserien.de
- ^ Knox, David (8 March 2013). "Airdate: Transporter: The Series". TV Tonight. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
- ^ From the United states of america Copyright Part catalog: "Public Catalog – Copyright Catalog (1978 to present) – Basic Search [search: "Transporter The Serial"]". U.s.a. Copyright Office. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
- ^ "Archived re-create". iwatch.be. Archived from the original on xi Baronial 2014. Retrieved 12 February 2013.
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- ^ 'The Consummate 1st Season' of the Series Spun-Off From the Film Archived iii March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ 'The Complete 2nd Flavour' DVDs: Street Date, Price and Packaging! Archived 21 September 2015 at the Wayback Auto
External links [edit]
- Transporter: The Serial at IMDb
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transporter:_The_Series
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