Transporter: The Series
- Chris Vance: Frank Martin
- Andrea Osvart: Carla Valeri
- François Berléand: Inspector Tarconi
- Delphine Chanéac: Juliette Dubois
- Charly Hübner: Dieter Haussmann
Transporter: The Series (Original Title: Transporter: The Series ) is an internationally co-produced action series based on The Transporter movies of Luc Besson. The series is produced by the transmitters HBO, HBO Canada, the French channel M6 and RTL, which radiate with the exception of the HBO series. Your first screened in the United States was in October 2012 at Cinemax, and found in Germany on October 11, 2012 in RTL instead.
Action
The series tells the story of the three The Transporter movies is not new, but builds on it.
Frank Martin, a former elite soldier, now living on the Mediterranean coast of southern France. Officially, he led a reclusive, quiet life, but in truth he earned his living as a driver ( he prefers the term transporter), the endangered persons or explosive objects transported the sometimes seedy customers, which he always ends up in great danger. He is assisted by Carla, who gives him his orders and supplies it with information, and the mechanic Dieter. The French inspector Tarconi know about Frank's business decision, but has accepted that he can not convict him, and now even developed a friendly relationship with him.
Production
The pilot episode was produced by the long- lost- producer Stephen Williams. Other directors are Bruce McDonald ( Degrassi: The Next Generation, Queer as Folk ) and Andy Mikita ( Stargate Universe and Sanctuary Syfys - Guardian of the creatures ). Chris Vance takes on the role of the " transporter " Frank Martin of Jason Statham, who portrayed the character in the Transporter films in the series. The Hungarian actress Andrea Osvart plays the female lead in the series, a former CIA agent who supported Frank Martin in the organization of his missions.
François Berléand continues his role of Inspector Tarconi from the original film.
For the first season of 12 episodes have been ordered, which were equipped with a budget of 43 million U.S. dollars.
The first 5 episodes of the series was shown on RTL in the German broadcasting area on October 11, 2012 at 20:15, the next 5 from November 15 2012 until at 21.15 clock. For the last two no broadcast date has been announced.
In early August 2013, the production of a second season was announced in Frank Spotnitz is to act as the new showrunner for the series. In January 2014 it was announced that the second season has been accepted into the program by the U.S. cable channel TNT, the filming of the new episodes will begin in February 2014.
Episode List
Episode order
RTL in Germany, M6 in France and HBO Canada in Canada all plan to broadcast the episodes in a different order (or have already aired ). It is unclear which is the originally intended order, so the order is specified here, the RTL has chosen.
Trivia
Frank Martin's company car is an Audi A8 in the 3rd generation in a special-protection version. This model is available only with automatic transmission in free trade, in the film, however, a manual shift lever including associated pedal is in short sequences (equivalent to a manual transmission ) is shown.
The series is characterized by a conspicuous product placement, serve as the cars of the villains, for example, in every episode Mercedes -Benz M-Class SUV. The mobile phones are almost exclusively represented by the iPhone 4.
With Charly Hübner also a German actor has a recurring role in the series. Hannes Jaenicke and Uwe Ochsenknecht have guest appearances.