A semi-fictional account of Henri Charrière's time in the penal system in French Guyana - some of it spent on infamous Devil's Island - is presented. It's the early 1930s. Charrière - nicknamed ...

Henri "Papillon" Charrière is a master thief who, despite his criminal activities, is a decent guy. When he is accused of murder and unjustly convicted, he plans a daring escape from the prison island ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

Producers Branko Lustig (Schindler's List) and John Kelly (The Black Dahlia) will remake Steve McQueen classic Papillon, reports Variety. The pair have teamed up with production company Altantia ...

There’s a lot of ugliness at work in the prison drama “Papillon,” but like its butterfly namesake, something beautiful and delicate emerges from its well-spun chrysalis. And that’s the unlikely ...