Papillon (2017 film)

Papillon
Theatrical release poster
Directed byMichael Noer
Screenplay byAaron Guzikowski
Based onPapillon
by Henri Charrière
Banco
by Henri Charrière
Papillon
by Dalton Trumbo
Lorenzo Semple Jr.
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyHagen Bogdanski
Edited by
  • John Axelrad
  • Lee Haugen
Music byDavid Buckley
Production
companies
Distributed byBleecker Street (United States)
Blitz (Serbia and Montenegro)[1]
Release dates
  • September 9, 2017 (2017-09-09) (TIFF)
  • August 24, 2018 (2018-08-24) (United States)
Running time
133 minutes
Countries
  • Malta
  • Montenegro
  • United States
  • Serbia
LanguagesEnglish
French
Box office$10.1 million[1]

Papillon is a 2017 biographical crime drama film directed by Michael Noer and also the last film by Red Granite Pictures. It tells the story of French convict Henri Charrière (Charlie Hunnam), nicknamed Papillon ("butterfly"), who was falsely imprisoned in 1933 in the notorious Devil's Island penal colony and escaped in 1941 with the help of another convict, counterfeiter Louis Dega (Rami Malek). The film's screenplay is based on Charrière's autobiographies Papillon and Banco, as well as the former's 1973 film adaptation, which was written by Dalton Trumbo and Lorenzo Semple Jr. and starred Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman.[2]

Papillon premiered on September 9, 2017, in the Special Presentations section at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.[3][2]

  1. ^ a b "Papillon (2018)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
  2. ^ a b Harvey, Dennis (8 September 2017). "Toronto Film Review: 'Papillon'". Variety. Penske Business Media. Retrieved 8 September 2017.
  3. ^ Pond, Steve (15 August 2017). "Aaron Sorkin, Brie Larson, Louis CK Movies Added to Toronto Film Festival Lineup". TheWrap. Retrieved 15 August 2017.