#renee leblanc

[glow-worms-are-believers]

Ask no Question, hear no lie (dp x dc)

"This better be good," Renee started as she slid into the diner booth in front of her best friend. "I had to cancel a date for this."

"Kate?" Charlie said with that placid expression that just begged for a punch. "Or are you two broken up again."

"Charlie if you don’t start talking right now, I’m walking right back out," she warned 

"Still broken up then," Charlie said as he nodded sagely.

Renee took a deep breath before releasing it slowly. She would not shoot her best friend, she told herself. No matter how annoying he was. "Just tell me what I’m here for."

Charlie leaned forward and Renee mirrored him unconsciously. "I’ve been investigating some shady arms deals recently."

"Do arm deals even register in Hub City?"

"They do when it’s a new supplier with tech powered by an all-new power source," Charlie said as he started tapping on the table and Renee leaned back to contemplate the information.

"Who’s the new player?" She asked

"I don’t know," he answered, pondering. "But I've heard Leblanc has insisted on a face to face meeting."

"When?" Renee asked.

"Tonight," Charlie said with a smirk. "You up for it, partner?"

She sighed. "A little forewarning would’ve been nice."

"Please," he tilted his head, amused. "I’m sure you packed everything you need for this and more."

"Still," Renee said though they both knew he was right.

A few hours later, they were laying in wait on the rooftop overlaying a dark, grimy alley that smelled vaguely of urine even so high up. They were both in their Question apparel, only the face mask being left off. 

"It’s been two hours already," Renee grumbled as she looked through the binoculars she’d brought. "Either your guy is late or the tip was bad."

"One would think you’d be more patient on stakeouts considering," Charlie piped up.

"One would be wrong," Renee answered as she turned to glare at the man who looked as unruffled as ever, the bastard. Then he perked up.

"Shhh," Charlie said and she turned back towards their query. 

Out of the shadows were coming a group of men looking armed and mean. 

"Leblanc & goons," Charlie said quietly and Renee looked down, as the guys spread out on one side of the Alley. They settled in place for a few minutes before settling down. It was calm again, but there was now a tension in the air.

Then, from the other end of the Alley walked in a lone man dressed in a black suit with a red bolo tie, his gray hair tied in a ponytail. 

"Gentlemen," he started affably. "What a pleasure it is to meet you at last."

"Masters," Leblanc answered. "You showed up."

"I’m a man of my word," the newly-dubbed-Masters said with a cold smile. "Am I to assume you are as well?"

"You’ll get your money once I get my shipment," the arms dealer answered.

"You have it," Masters answered glibly. 

Leblanc gave him a look and Masters smiled.

The arms dealer took out a phone and talked quietly in it for a few seconds before he snapped it close and turned towards Masters again.

"Would you look at that," Leblanc then said, "you really are a man of your word."

"As I said," the suited salt-and-pepper man deferred as he shrugged.

"Pity for you, I’m not," the arms dealer said with a smile, and Renee tensed but even as the goons raised their guns, Masters only sighed.

"What a shame," he said and then snapped his fingers. "Boys," he barked sharply. 

From the ground emerged a handful of giant neon green vultures wearing… were those fez hats?

Renee wasn’t the only one taken aback, as the goons stood gobsmacked for a second, and it was a second too long. As a group, the vultures all dove for the gun-toting goons and in a few seconds it was over.

Masters alone stood in the alley littered with still bodies. 

"I hate when my plans fall through," he muttered as he nudged one of the bodies laying on the floor. Then he continued, his voice pitched louder, "Make sure none of them remember about tonight."

One of the vulture straightened. "Will do, Boss."

"And get the ecto-guns back to the mansion," Masters added. 

The same vulture did a little salute before turning towards the other birds. "You heard the Boss, get to work!"

All the vultures scattered, with half of them flying off and the other half diving for the downed men, as they dove through them - no, Renee thought, it was more like they dove into them.

There were a few moments of stillness before all the birds flew right back out and then away to rejoin their flock.

"Where have the honest crooks gone," the man bemoaned to himself once he was alone once again, walking out of the alleyway. "This industry has gone to the dogs…"

As he disappeared from view, he was soon too far for Renee to catch his mutters and silence fell again.

After a few minutes, once she was sure they were alone, she turned to Charlie, with slightly wide eyes. "What the hell was that?"

"That," he answered with a gleam in his eyes, "is an excellent question."

[rcress232-blog]

It only took one

The press was flabbergasted as the beautiful female officer paraded the captured male before the cameras, holding him, but seemingly confident he wouldn't try anything to escape.

"Wait," one of the reporters said. "This is the same man who fought off eight male officers?"

"Yes," Officer Renee LeBlanc answered. "He did, quite violently."

"But you arrested him all by yourself?" Another reporter called.

"Yes," she answered. "See, he's very hostile toward men, but he can't bring himself to resist a woman, so it only took one - me - to take him into custody after he fought off all those male officers. He surrendered very meekly to me. He's really a lamb in many ways."

He blushed and dropped his gaze, ashamed he'd surrendered so easily to the woman, but knowing she was right - he was a complete badger to men, but it only took one woman to bring him under control and into her custody.

[daigo-rikuto]

I am so sorry rikuto chan I have not slept in 2 days,

-@ton-ami-rene

Oh my god, that won't do.

You're coming to Leblanc right now. I have blankets, warm drinks, some strawberries and even some sleeping pills if you get insomnia. Come over.

[caeruleums]

      hello. i feel like writing a bit so like this for a smut starter (based off ur wishlist maybe?) from one of the muses under the cut. 

mikey leblanc (paul mescal) colby dickens (margaret qualley)  harvey cyrus (jon bernthal)* max wolfe (jacob elordi)* logan carter (roberta colindrez) maggie ferreira (camila mendes) gunner sao (kj apa) eden huxley (elizabeth olsen) freddie zapata (michael trevino)* bear coney (mason gooding) wren stark (amy adams) spencer abernathy (winona ryder) rose abernathy (natalia dyer) crosby claufield (oliver jackson cohen)* brady van cortlandt (mia healey) mckenna van cortlandt (grace van patten) eleanor van cortlandt (samara weaving) kobie vila (aubrey plaza) lauren wolfe (renee rapp) ava wolfe (rosamund pike) 

* means pls read their bio / info since they have horror and/or supernatural elements to them.

[media-consumption]

Movie: Tarnation

Director: Jonathan Caouette

This movie is gut-wrenching.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"New Count Laid Against Bolduc," Montreal Star. September 29, 1943. Page 32. --- Freed at Plage Laval, Faces Draft Charge Here ---- Freed in Plage Laval last night on a charge arising out of the July brawl in that summer resort, Rene Bolduc, 23-year-old son of the chief of police of Plage Laval, appeared in local criminal court today to be charged again, this time under National Selective Service mobilization regulations.

Bolduc was arraigned before Judge Edouard Tellier on a charge of neglecting to provide the divisional registrar with his forwarding address. He pleaded not guilty and trial was set for October 6. The accused, represented in Plage Laval last night and in the local court today by Philippe Monette, K.C., was ordered to put up $500 bail.

Recorder Desire Desbois ended the case of the alleged race riot last night by dismissing one charge against Bolduc and Andre Bigras, 18, Ste. Dorothee farm worker, and acquitted the pair on a second charge. A charge of resisting an officer in the performance of his duty was withdrawn, and the two were acquitted on a charge of causing a disturbance at the Kozy Korner, a local dance hall, last July 24.

It was a topographical point which won freedom for Bolduc and Bigras in the crowded court room last night. According to evidence presented, the July brawl occurred at the Kozy Korner restaurant, but the actual fight which sent Moe Herscovitch, Jewish athlete, to hospital with serious eye injuries, occurred not at Plage Laval, but at Ste. Rose.

While the actual fight took place only a few steps from the Kozy Korner, the Recorder ruled that his court had no jurisdiction in the case because the trouble had осcurred on the Ste. Rose side of the parish dividing line.

In his final summing up of the case, Recorder Desbois decided that Bigras' participation in the brawl was in "legitimate defence," and finally that the Town of Plage Laval had exceeded its jurisdiction in placing against the accused a charge under a town by-law when the alleged offence was covered by the Criminal Code. He said the by- law did not specifically cover the particular offence charge.

The withdrawal of the charge of resisting an officer in the course of his duty was based on contradictory evidence given by two local policemen. One testified that Bolduc had left the Kozy Korner on the night of the brawl without causing trouble. The other testified that Bolduc had "rolled up his sleeves and was looking for a fight."

Mr. Monette entered the court proceedings for the first time last night, arguing on behalf of Bolduc. Benoit Poupart, who was alone representing Bolduc last week, was present again, with Paul Leblanc, counsel for Bigras.

Mr. Monette questioned H. Plafker, one of the Jewish residents of the summer resort, who testified that he saw Bolduc "with his sleeves rolled up". He testified further that Bolduc had pushed two constables in the Kosy Korner, and that he repeatedly described some of the people in the dance hall as "dirty Jews".

The testimony, however, counted for little, with Mr. Monette repeatedly reminding the witness that the current charge was of disturbing the peace and not of resisting an officer, a charge which had been withdrawn.

[AL: Wow, a whitewash of a race riot by a petty local judge, almost certainly because the accused was the son of a police officer. Who would have thunk it?]

[dynamitehq]

please unfollow;

bryan danielson { @americandrcgon } - mun request.

ace leblanc { @livingdeadhurl } - inactivity.

renee paquette. { @prcttyfunnyblonde } - mun request.

the roles of bryan danielson and renee paquette are now available!

[editsmodels]

like or @broosklynine

[repostzilla]

[dear-indies]

i mean this in the most respectful way, but should jack black be on the masterlist when he was in the film shallow hal, which used fat suits? as a fat person, that kind of gives me the ick.

hey! as a fat person too i have a weird and complicated opinion on that because fuck that movie and fuck everything that movie stands for but he's fat himself and ideas around fatphobia in 2001 were not what they are today. without taking the latter in to consideration people don't speak bad of thin people who have actually worn fat suits as chris hemsworth, chris sullivan, terry crews, ryan reynolds, neil patrick harris, viola davis, emma thompson, kaley cuoco, max greenfield, matt leblanc, amy adams, courteney cox, hugh jackman, renee zellweger, gwyneth paltrow, mila kunis, and julia roberts so to remove him for a movie made in 2001 when him himself is fat is weird to me when people don’t hold thin people to the same level even though they themselves have worn suits.

[artisticlegshake]

JUMP NEW ORLEANS LA RESULTS 2022/23

TEEN SOLOS:

1st Kynadi Crain - JEAN LEIGH YRJ!

2nd Elise LeBlanc - MODERN CONCEPTIONS YRJ!

3rd Stella Vince - JEAN LEIGH YRJ!

3rd  Julia Jacob - MODERN CONCEPTIONS YRJ!

4th Cady Cropper - JBP

5th Elie Rabin - STARS

6th Ryleigh Jane Touchstone - DANCESOUTH

7th Ava LaRosa - DANCE EXPLOSION

8th Ellie Boles - THE DANCE KOLLECTIVE

9th Dakodah Hew-Len - CSPAS

10th Maegan Abadie - MODERN CONCEPTIONS

SENIOR SOLOS:

1st Ally Tyrna - DANCEZONE YRJ!

2nd Emersyn Dickson - CSPAS YRJ!

3rd Renee Bergeron - STARS YRJ!

4th Kya Story - THE DANCE CLUB YRJ!

5th Louise Hindsbo - EVOLVE YRJ!

5th Victoria Saewert - INFINITY YRJ!

6th Ashley Ragas - MODERN CONCEPTIONS YRJ!

7th Ava Hales - DANCESOUTH

8th Kate Mooney - THE POINTE

9th Abby Matuszak - THE POINTE

9th Libby Jo Parsons - MODERN CONCEPTIONS

10th Ashley Kadau - TUTTEROW

[thegospelhighways]

#kristinapovolish went missing praise God when she went missing praise God she was praying for peace praise God can I get a witness somebody we pray for #siobhanmcguinness praise God can I get a witness somebody The power of healing was under the impression praise God can I get a witness somebody let's name the names praise God Daniela Perez praise God #sarahpayne , Brenda Sue Gere Brenda Sue brown Mary Louise Day Mary crocker Jesse Layne Holland Isabella Sara tenant Lluvia Espinoza morales lakaylee chambers Cary Ann medlin Lauren sarene key Alexis Marie pounder melonie biddersingh Paris white Amanda Victoria brown Carlie Jane brucia Mei Shan leung Daniela shiri sookne Mackenzie Lynn Maison calista Marie Springer kaelyn sarene Bray Alicia Clark #aliciaclark #alicialynnclark Jill Catherine camm #cathycummings Marlena alvirez Marcia Trimble Victoria Joelle Larson Margaret Archer Baker Downs Kenneth bridges Ashley Elaine Brock destiny Marie champagne savannah Rose Hardin Polly klaas Gabriella Marie wiegert Emily Clair lastinger kassidy Caitlyn bortner CODI Michele Aston jasmine Galyer Allison Jennifer griffor Allison Wyatt Lauren Rousseau Dawn hochsprung Mary sherlach Anne Marie Murphy Rachel davino Nancy lanza Dylan hockley Madeleine hsu chase Kowalski Jack pinto Benjamin wheeler Jessica rekos Olivia Engel Emilie Parker Victoria Soto Grace Audrey McDonnell Noah pozner Daniel barden James mattioli Jesse lewis Avielle richman and her dad Dr Jeremy Charlotte bacon Emily Grace Jones McKenna elrod omaree Valera Nevaeh amyah Buchanan St. Charles county Jane doe Vicki Lynne hoskinson soren Victoria chilson Amy leich Ayers kaylynn Bella Mitchell broshears Cameron Boyce Cameron Douglas macleod Caleb Logan Leblanc Darcey Iris freeman Kyleigh tayne slusher Hannah Renee davenport kristyanna Rose Cowan Sydney Paige achan Philadelphia Jane doe Natalie Alexis deblase Missy L. Dannecker nelani Ciara koefer Tracy Lynn Latimer Jessica Kassandra haffer Lauryn Dickens Cassandra Lynn Williamson airi kinoshita kira Larissa Chandler Lily wolfenbarger Marcy Conrad Lisa Ann french Walker county Jane doe Ellie lawrenson Donna Marie gillbanks cherish Lily perrywinkle Noah thaxton

[charmingpplincardigans]

Books 2021

I read so many books this year! Or well, I listened to so many books this year. There was a moment in September where I had gone through 70 and thought, 'I could read 100 books this year if I really tried', but uh, you can probably tell that shortly after that I stopped trying. See also the part of the year where my collected non-fiction reading looked like I might be gearing up to build a sexbot to upload my consciousness to. I'm still not ruling that out.

The Parable of the Sower // Octavia Butler (science fiction)

Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology // Adrienne Mayor (non-fiction)

The Duke & I // Julia Quinn (romance)

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches // Audre Lorde (essays)

Perfect Sound Whatever // James Acaster (non-fiction)

The Viscount Who Loved Me // Julia Quinn (romance)

Dearly // Margaret Atwood (poetry)

An Offer From A Gentleman // Julia Quinn (romance)

How to Write An Autobiographical Novel // Alexander Chee (memoir)

The Sandman: Overture // Neil Gaiman, JH Williams III, Dave Stewart (fantasy)

Romancing Mr. Bridgerton // Julia Quinn (romance)

Cemetery Boys // Aiden Thomas (fantasy)

Here For It // R. Eric Thomas (essays)

To Sir Phillip, With Love // Julia Quinn (romance)

Sandman (audio) // Neil Gaiman, Dirk Maggs (fantasy)

The View From the Cheap Seats // Neil Gaiman (essays)

Bluets // Maggie Nelson (poetry)

Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls: A Handbook for Unapologetic Living // Jes Baker (non-fiction)

A Study in Scarlet // Arthur Conan Doyle (mystery)

When He Was Wicked // Julia Quinn (romance)

The Sign of Four // Arthur Conan Doyle (mystery)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes // Arthur Conan Doyle (mystery)

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes // Arthur Conan Doyle (mystery)

The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman Burglar // Maurice LeBlanc (mystery)

The Return of Sherlock Holmes // Arthur Conan Doyle (mystery)

Sex, Race, and Robots // Dr. Ayanna Howard (non-fiction)

It's In His Kiss // Julia Quinn (romance)

The Raven Boys // Maggie Stiefvater (fantasy, re-read)

The Dream Thieves // Maggie Stiefvater (fantasy, re-read)

After Callimachus: Poems // Stephanie Burt (poetry)

Blue Lily, Lily Blue // Maggie Stiefvater (fantasy, re-read)

The Raven King // Maggie Stiefvater (fantasy, re-read)

On the Way to the Wedding // Julia Quinn (romance)

Call Down the Hawk // Maggie Stiefvater (fantasy, re-read)

Sorted: Growing Up, Coming Out, and Finding My Place a transgender memoir // Jackson Bird (memoir)

Felon // Reginald Dwayne Betts (poetry)

If Birds Gather Your Hair For Nesting // Anna Journey (poetry)

Mister Impossible // Maggie Stiefvater (fantasy)

Visual Poetry in the Avant Writing Collection // edited by John M. Bennett (poetry)

Everybody Has a Podcast (Except You) // McElroys et al (non-fiction)

The Queer Principles of Kit Webb // Cat Sebastian (romance)

Counting Descent // Clint Smith (poetry)

The Paper Magician // Charlie N. Holmberg (fantasy)

Somebody's Daughter // Ashley C. Ford (memoir)

Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything // Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen (non-fiction)

The Family Plot // Cherie Priest (horror)

Don't Call Us Dead // Danez Smith (poetry)

The 99% Invisible City // Roman Mars (non-fiction)

The A.I. Who Loved Me // Alyssa Cole (romance/science fiction)

Upstream: Selected Essays // Mary Oliver (essays)

The Glass Magician // Charlie M. Holmberg (fantasy)

DMZ Colony // Don Mee Choi (non-fiction/poetry)

Turned On: Science, Sex, and Robots // Kate Devlin (non-fiction)

Fierce Fairytales // Nikita Gill (fantasy)

One Last Stop // Casey McQuiston (fantasy)

Medium Raw // Anthony Bourdain (memoir)

Aerial View of Louisiana // Cleopatra Mathis (poetry)

The Body is Not An Apology // Sonya Renee Taylor (non-fiction)

Dolly Parton: Songteller // Dolly Parton (memoir)

Winter's Orbit // Everina Maxwell (science fiction)

The Universe of Us // Lang Leav (poetry)

The Master Magician // Charlie N. Holmberg (fantasy)

Paperback Crush // Gabrielle Moss (non-fiction)

What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat // Aubrey Gordon (non-fiction)

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? // Caitlin Doughty (non-fiction)

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing // Hank Green (science fiction)

A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor // Hank Green (science fiction)

The Midnight Bargain // CL Polk (fantasy)

Unmentionable // Therese O'Niell (non-fiction)

Here //  Richard McGuire (comic)

Mr. Humble & Dr. Butcher // Brandy Schillace (non-fiction)

A Darker Shade of Magic // VE Schwab (fantasy, re-read)

Good Omens // Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (fantasy, re-read)

A Gathering of Shadows // VE Schwab (fantasy, re-read)

Women and Other Monsters // Jess Zimmerman (non-fiction/memoir)

Lessons on Expulsion // Erika L. Sanchez (poetry)

[catboybatman]

A fun fact about my family is that they have this weird obsession with Renee LeBlanc. Everytime this man does anything you can garantue my family will know of it. They dont even like him they just want to study him under a microscope.

[atlanticcanada]

Sixty cases at N.B.'s Dorchester Penitentiary; mass testing and isolation ongoing

It’s been about one week since an outbreak at Dorchester Penitentiary was declared, and the latest round of mass testing has found 60 cases – 54 inmates and six staff – according to Correctional Service Canada.

Darcy LeBlanc, regional administrator of Communication and Executive Services, says wellness checks are being done at least once a day on inmates, and no one has needed emergent medical attention.

It is still unknown how the outbreak started.

“It couldn’t be our inmates. They’re not leaving daily – we are – but they haven’t been able, that I’m aware of, to pinpoint exactly how it did come in,” said LeBlanc.

She said when the pandemic began, inmates had been separated into cohorts, so the outbreak has been isolated to one area of the prison.

“When COVID-19 started, we trained almost 250 staff members to become contact tracers for us inside, dealing with the inmates and who had had contact with who and trying to isolate that information,” she said. “Public health though, has also been working with us in collaboration to do the contact tracing for our staff.”

It’s the first time since the beginning of the pandemic that COVID-19 has found its way into an Atlantic federal prison.

The Union of Canadian Correctional officers says their members have been provided with proper equipment, and the union successfully advocated to get the officers take home COVID-19 tests.

Rene Howe, Atlantic regional president for the Union of Canadian Correctional officers, says their members are concerned for their safety, but are still going to work. He says that shows their “integrity and dedication.”

“Our union officials have been working proactively to ensure the safest possible working conditions for our members and we are maintaining a high level of follow up with management on all the matters regarding the safety of our members and inmates,” Howe said.

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[aion-rsa]

The Cinematic Legacy of Lupin: Arsène Lupin’s Live-Action Filmography

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When Netflix premiered the first season of Lupin last January, 70 million sheltered-in-place households ravenously binged it, making the series the most-watched non-English show for its premiere month on the streamer so far. Lupin steals a page from French literature. The hero of Lupin, Assane Diop (Omar Sy) is inspired by France’s iconic ‘Gentleman Thief’ Arsène Lupin, a fictional figure created by French writer Maurice Leblanc in 1905. 

Lupin was the subject of some two dozen books by Leblanc, who continued adding into his literary franchise until well into the 1930s. Akin to Robin Hood, Lupin stole from the rich, and often did good deeds despite his thieving capers. He was a master of deception and disguise, a lady killer who always operated with a classy panache. With a legacy spanning more than a century, there have been plenty of live-action depictions in film and TV.

The First Lupin Films are Over a Hundred Years Old

The earliest cinematic portrayals of Lupin were in black and white, and many have been lost. One of the very first was a U.S. production, a short film titled The Gentleman Burglar in 1908. William Ranows, a veteran of over sixty films, played Lupin. It was directed by one of the first film directors ever, Edwin Porter, who worked for Edison. 

Leblanc was a contemporary of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Consequently, Holmes appears in a few Lupin stories. Doyle took legal action against Leblanc, forcing the name change in Lupin stories to the thinly disguised ‘Herlock Sholmes.’ As Holmes is loved by the British, Lupin is cherished by the French, and both characters became global icons. Consequently, among the many film and TV adaptations, several that depicted their rivalry regardless of copyright issues. In 1910, a German film serial titled Arsène Lupin contra Sherlock Holmes starred Paul Otto as Lupin and Viggo Larsen as Holmes (Larsen also served as director.) There were allegedly five installments in the series, but they’ve all been lost. 

France produced Arsène Lupin contre Ganimard in 1914 with Georges Tréville as Lupin (Inspector Ganimard was constantly on Lupin’s trail). The silent film Arsène Lupin came out of Britain in 1916 with Gerald Ames in the titular role, followed by more U.S. productions: Arsène Lupin (1917) starring Earle Williams, The Teeth of the Tiger (1919) with David Powell, which is also lost, and 813 starring Wedgwood Nowell. 813 was the title of Leblanc’s fourth Lupin book. 

Lupin and the Barrymore Clan of Actors

The legendary thespian John Barrymore played Lupin in 1932’s Arsène Lupin. He took on the role under one of Lupin’s aliases, the Duke of Charmerace. His brother, Lionel Barrymore, played another Lupin nemesis, Detective Guerchard. Given the illustrious cast, this is a standout Lupin film, although there isn’t a shred of Frenchness in Barrymore’s interpretation. Coincidentally, John Barrymore also played Holmes in Sherlock Holmes a decade earlier. He is also the grandfather of Drew Barrymore. 

Barrymore’s Arsène Lupin revolved around the theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre. Historically, the Da Vinci masterpiece was stolen in 1911 and recovered in 1913. This inspired a Lupin short story, a parody akin to early fanfiction that was not written by Leblanc. In 1912, mystery writer Carolyn Wells published The Adventure Of The Mona Lisa which imagined Holmes and Lupin to be part of the International Society of Infallible Detectives alongside A. J. Raffles, Monsieur Lecoq, and other crime-solving luminaries. Barrymore’s Arsène Lupin does not retell this tale, but the theft of the Mona Lisa comes up again in other Lupin films because it’s France so robbing the Louvre is a common plot point. Netflix’s Lupin begins with Diop’s heist of the Queen’s necklace from the Louvre, an Easter egg referring to Leblanc’s original Lupin short story, ‘The Queen’s Necklace’ published in 1906.

The ‘30s delivered two more Lupin films. The French-made Arsène Lupin detective (1937) starred Jules Berry as Lupin and the American-made Arsène Lupin Returns (1938) with Melvyn Douglas who was credited under another Lupin alias Rene Farrand (Lupin has a lot of aliases). Despite being a completely different production, Douglas’ film was an attempt to capitalize on the success of Barrymore’s film as both films were from MGM. Universal Studios entered the fray soon after with their version Enter Arsène Lupin (1944) starring Charles Korvin. The following year, the Mexican-made Arsenio Lupin (1945) featured Ramón Pereda as the French thief. That film also starred José Baviera as Sherlock. 

The Early Japanese Lupin Adaptations

Lupin captured the hearts of the Japanese. Ironically, Japanese speakers have a difficult time pronouncing ‘L’s so Lupin is usually renamed as ‘Rupan’ or ‘Wolf’ (Lupine means wolf-like – remember Remus Lupin from Harry Potter). As early as 1923, Japan also delivered a silent version of 813, retitled Hachi Ichi San, starring Komei Minami as the renamed Lupin character of Akira Naruse. 

In the ‘50s, Japan produced 3 films that credit Leblanc: Nanatsu-no Houseki (1950) with Keiji Sada, Tora no-Kiba (1951) with Ken Uehara, and Kao-no Nai Otoko (1955) with Eiji Okada. However, post-WWII Japan has obscured most of the details on these films. Like Hachi Ichi San, these Japanese versions laid the foundations for the Lupin III, which debuted as a manga in 1967 and spawned a major manga and anime franchise. In karmic retribution for Leblanc poaching Sherlock, Japan stole Lupin. Lupin III was Arsène Lupin’s grandson. 

Notably, the second Lupin III feature film, The Castle of Cagliostro, marked the directorial debut of famed animator Hayao Miyazaki and is considered a groundbreaking classic that inspired Pixar and Disney (Disney’s The Great Mouse Detective (1986) pilfered the finale clockwork fight from The Castle of Cagliostro). In the wake of the anime Lupin III Part I (1971), Japan produced some anime films that were more loyal to Leblanc, notably Kaitō Lupin: 813 no Nazo (1979) and Lupin tai Holmes (1981). However, this article is focused upon live-action adaptations. Lupin III is another topic entirely. 

In the late ‘50s and into the ‘70s, France reclaimed her celebrated son. Robert Lamoureux became Lupin for two films, Les aventures d’Arsène Lupin (1957) and Signé Arsène Lupin (1959). A comedy version pitted rival sons of Lupin against each other in Arsène Lupin contre Arsène Lupin (1962). Playing the Lupin brothers were Jean-Pierre Cassel and Jean-Claude Brialy. 

Lupin on the Small Screen

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From Lupin III to Inspector Gadget: Examining the Heirs of Arsène Lupin

By Natalie Zutter

France also delivered several TV series. Arsène Lupin ran from 1971 to 1974 and starred Georges Descrières. It encompassed 26 60-minute episodes. L’Île aux trente cercueils (1979) is often included in Lupin filmographies because it is based on a Leblanc novel published in 1919 in which Lupin makes a guest appearance. However, he was omitted from this six-episode miniseries, so it doesn’t quite count. Arsène Lupin joue et perd (1980) was another six-episode miniseries loosely based on ‘813’ with Jean-Claude Brialy from the 1962 comedy. 

One more French TV show, Le Retour d’Arsène Lupin, was televised in two seasons, 1989-1990 and 1995-1996. These were 90-minute episodes with 12 in season 1 and eight in season 2. François Dunoyer starred as Lupin.

And in 2007, the largest Lupin TV show ran for a whopping 96 episodes plus one special. Lupin was made in the Philippines no less, starring Richard Gutierrez as André Lupin

Lupin in the Last Decade 

In 2011, Japan delivered one more live-action film Lupin no Kiganjo starring Kōichi Yamadera. Based on Leblanc’s 3rd Lupin book, L’aiguille Creuse, the film is reset in modern Japan.

In the strangest permutation of Japanese Lupins, Daughter of Lupin was a TV series that is an odd hybrid of Lupin III and Leblanc’s work. A campy sitcom in the tradition of Romeo and Juliet, Hana (Kyoko Fukada) comes from a family of thieves known as the L clan who are inspired by Lupin. Her lover, Kazuma (Koji Seto), is from a family of cops. When in thief mode, Hana wears a carnival mask and a velvet catsuit. It’s goofy, sort of a live action version of anime. It ran for two seasons in 2019 and 2020.

The Lupin Adaptation You Should See 

The strongest modern adaptation of Leblanc’s iconic burglar is the period film Arsène Lupin (2004). It’s an actioner, a creation story for Lupin, starting from his childhood and moving rapidly to him becoming a master gentleman thief. Romain Duris plays the titular role, and the film is in French. Backing Duris are veteran actresses Kristin Scott Thomas as Comtesse de Cagliostro and Eva Green as Clarisse de Dreux-Soubise. The story is absurd, like a mash-up between a superhero film and the DaVinci code, and it gets a bit muddled in the telling. However, it’s shot on location (including the Louvre) and encapsulates the spirit of Leblanc’s character in an updated fashion. It’s a perfect primer for Lupin Season 2.

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Lupin seasons 1 and 2 are available to stream on Netflix now.

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