Largo Winch (TV series)
| Largo Winch | |
|---|---|
| Created by |
Philippe Francq Jean Van Hamme (original graphic novel) |
| Developed by | Phil Bedard Larry Lalonde |
| Written by | Phil Bedard Larry Lalonde Roy Sallows Larry Mollin Karen Harris William Gray Gail Morgan Hickman |
| Directed by |
Joseph L. Scanlan David Wu Paolo Barzman |
| Starring |
Paolo Seganti Sydney Penny Diego Wallraff Serge Houde Geordie Johnson |
| Composer(s) | Michel Colombier |
| Country of origin | France, Canada, Germany, Belgium, United States |
| No. of episodes | 39 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | David J. Patterson Gail Morgan Hickman |
| Producer(s) | Phil Bedard Larry Mollin |
| Running time | ca. 42 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original release | 2001 |
Largo Winch is a television program based on the Belgian comic book series of the same name by Philippe Francq and Jean Van Hamme that first aired on January 26, 2001 in France on M6, and May 3, 2001 in Germany on ProSieben. The show lasted two seasons. Guest stars included Kim Poirier, Vernon Dobtcheff, Elisha Cuthbert, Olga Kurylenko and David Carradine.
Largo Winch (Paolo Seganti) is a 28-year-old adventurer, drifting around the world, searching for himself. Along the way he's picked up with Simon Ovrannaz (Diego Wallraff), an ex-thief he met in a Turkish prison. The two are best friends...almost brothers.
Then one day, Largo's life is changed forever when he learns that Nerio Winch (David Carradine), the step-father he barely knew, is dead. Nerio is an Aristotle Onassis-like billionaire who secretly adopted Largo as a child, but never took him in. Instead, he paid a family in Luxembourg to raise him, then sent him to a monastery as a teenager to be educated. Nerio paid the bills, and that was pretty much the extent of their relationship. These last few years, they barely saw each other.
Now Nerio has committed suicide because he was dying of a brain tumor...and, incredibly, has left his vast fortune and control of Group W, his multi-national corporate empire, to Largo. Largo is overwhelmed by the responsibility of this sudden inheritance. The board of directors at Group W despise him, thinking him unworthy and incompetent.
Then Largo receives an astonishing video recorded by his step-father just before his death. On it, Nerio reveals that he was once a member of a mysterious organization called The Adriatic Commission, a secret conspiracy of billionaires and politicians who work to control the economic and political destiny of the world for their own ends. For years they have tried to kill Nerio for leaving. In the video Nerio says that if he is dead, despite what the official cause of death may be, it is because they have finally succeeded. Nerio ends by charging Largo with using Group W to seek out and destroy The Commission and uncover the names of its secret members.
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