Netflix Releases The Serpent Premiere Date and Trailer (TV News Roundup)
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The Serpent” will premiere on
April 2. Inspired by real events set in the 1970s, the limited series tells the story of the merciless killer Charles Sobhraj (
Tahar Rahim) and his girlfriend Marie-Andrée Leclerc (
Jenna Coleman), who prey on tourists exploring the “hippie trail” in South Asia. When Sobhraj becomes the chief suspect in a series of murders of young Western travelers, it’s up to Herman Knippenberg (
Billy Howle), a Dutch diplomat in Bangkok, to investigate the spree of crimes. The series also stars
Credit: ITV Studios
Inspired by real-events, drama series, ‘The Serpent’, which tells the astonishing true story of how one of the most elusive criminals of the 20th century was caught and brought to trial, will be available to buy on DVD and on Digital Download now.
Award-winning French actor Tahar Rahim (“The Looming Tower”,
A Prophet, “The Eddy”) stars as Charles Sobhraj and Jenna Coleman (“Victoria”, “The Cry”) plays his girlfriend Marie-Andree Leclerc who together carried out a crime spree along the Asian “Hippy Trail” during the 1970’s.
Directed by Tom Shankland (“The Missing”, “Les Misérables“), ‘The Serpent’ also stars Ellie Bamber (“Les Misérables”, “The Trial of Christine Keeler”), Mathilde Warnier (“World on Fire”), Grégoire Isvarine (
The Serpent prompts surge in sales of flared trousers and jumpsuits as viewers replicate 1970s fashion
Womenswear inspired by the bright colours, clashing prints and flared cuts of the era are proving popular on eBay according to figures
Jenna Coleman in The Serpent
The hit BBC show The Serpent has seen eBay searches of 1970 s clothes more than double as Britons try to emulate the fashion and homeware of the decade.
Womenswear inspired by the bright colours, clashing prints and flared cuts of the era are proving popular on the internet auction site.
Searches for halter neck tops - seen on star Jenna Coleman, who plays Marie-Andree LeClerc - have zoomed by 158pc, print dresses by 86pc, and flares by 31pc.
Tahar Rahim ensured his co-stars were scared of him when playing a killer in BBC hit drama The Serpent by giving them the cold shoulder.
For the first two weeks of filming the mini-series about sinister Charles Sobhraj and his murder sprees along South-east Asia s hippie trail with accomplice Marie-Andrée Leclerc (Jenna Coleman), Rahim didn t speak to his fellow actors. Which meant that they didn t know if they could speak to me or not .
The technique worked. People were frightened of me, the 39-year-old told me from Paris, where he s under curfew with his actress wife Leila Bekhti and their three children including their newborn quarantine baby .