Literary adaptations are fashionable and if they use AI, even more so. So Fillmin premieres tomorrow exclusively in Spain, wildlife manual, a series in which Canadian Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard adapts his award-winning novel of the same name (Editorial Barrett, 2021). It’s the story of Kevin Bédard (Antoine Pilon), a brilliant and ambitious businessman who develops an application allowing him to communicate with the deceased using their fingerprints. Would you be ready to turn all your relationships into transactions?

Originally published in 2018,“Wildlife Handbook is the third novel by Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard. The author, who is also an actor, playwright and director, explores very competitive environments in his literary work – celebrity (Sports and Entertainment), Law (Royal), the world of humor (High Demolition) – through obsessed characters. at all costs, which is detrimental to their health and moral integrity.

The idea came to Baril Guérard after reading an article in Wired magazine which tells the story of a man who experimented with artificial intelligence to give a second life to his deceased father. It is also inspired by an episode of the cult British series Black Mirror, entitled Be Right Back, which addresses transhumanism.

However, every path to success is fraught with pitfalls; In wildlife manual, the rapid expansion of the company will have consequences that will force the founder to make decisions with questionable ethics. In a sarcastic and ironic way, the series discusses success and how to achieve it with touches of dark humor and science fiction. Actor Louis Morrissette, who in turn appears as producer, comments in an interview that ethics is the key to the series: “It is, ultimately, ethics in life, in work, in success… When there is not a euro on the table, everyone has ethics! But when there’s money involved, sometimes ethics disappear.

The series, directed by Christian Laurence and produced by those responsible for Fragile, is made up of six 45-minute episodes and can be seen in full on Filmin starting tomorrow.