Alexandre de la Patellière & Matthieu Delaporte

Playwrights

Alexandre de la Patellière & Matthieu Delaporte have been working together for over twenty years. As screenwriters, they have collaborated on numerous projects, ranging from animation to comedy and thrillers: Christian Volckman’s Renaissance, the series adaptation of The Little Prince based on the book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Frédéric Forestier’s Les parrains, with Gérard Lanvin and Jacques Villeret, Richard Berry’s L’immortel, with Jean Reno, and Martin Bourboulon’s Papa ou Maman and Papa ou Maman 2, with Marina Foïs and Laurent Lafitte. In 2006, Matthieu made his first film (co-written with Alexandre), La jungle, with Patrick Mille and Guillaume Gallienne.

Le prénom, their first play, was directed by Bernard Murat in 2010 at the Théâtre Édouard VII. It was a huge success, and the play has since been performed all over the world. Two years later, they adapted it for the cinema themselves. The film was also a triumph with the public and won two Césars.

Their subsequent plays were also entrusted to Bernard Murat at the Théâtre Édouard VII: first Un dîner d’adieu in 2014 with Éric Elmosnino, Audrey Fleurot and Guillaume de Tonquédec, then Tout ce que vous voulez in 2016, with Stéphane De Groodt and Bérénice Béjo. That same year, they wrote a new film, Un illustre inconnu, starring Mathieu Kassovitz and Marie-Josée Croze and directed by Matthieu Delaporte.

In 2019, they wrote and directed Le meilleur reste à venir together, with Patrick Bruel and Fabrice Luchini.

In 2022, they returned to the theatre with two shows, Par le bout du nez, at the Théâtre Antoine, directed by Benard Murat, with François-Xavier Demaison and François Berléand; and also 1h22 avant la fin, at La Scala, written by Matthieu Delaporte and which they directed together. Also in 2022, they embarked on the great adventure of writing the diptych The Three Musketeers, directed by Martin Bourboulon, with François Civil, Eva Green, Vincent Cassel, Romain Duris and Pio Marmaï. The two films have a total of more than 6 million admissions.

Their new film, The Count of Monte Cristo, starring Pierre Niney, Anaïs Demoustier, Laurent Lafitte, Bastien Bouillon and Patrick Mille, was released in June 2024.