PAPILLON stars Charlie Hunnam and in a remake of the highly-praised 1973 film of the same name, based on the bestselling books of Henri “Papillon” Charriere about his experiences as a French thief and ...

The new film version of “Papillon,” based on Henri Charriere’s 1969 best-seller and its 1973 sequel, “Banco,” is rather better than the previous screen adaptation starring Steve McQueen and Dustin ...

No movie is immune from receiving a flashy Hollywood remake, not even a hoary old beast like the 1973 prison-escape classic “Papillon.” And that’s as it should be. Many movies more beloved than ...

Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman brought star power to this escape-from-Devil’s-Island epic back in 1973. Now Papillon has been remade with Charlie Hunnam and Rami Malek in the roles of two prisoners ...

Before there was THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, there was PAPILLON, in my opinion, the finest example of a prison drama followed closely by THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION. PAPILLON is based on the memoir written ...

In "Papillon," based on the 1969 memoir of Henri Charriere and the 1973 film starring Steve McQueen, Charlie Hunnam plays a thiefwrongly accused of murder, who teams with Louis Dega (Rami Malek), an ...

“Papillon,” a remake of the 1973 film about Devil’s Island inmate Henri “Papillon” Charrière, could be described as a prison drama, but it’s probably just as accurate to call the new movie a mystery.

When “Papillon” initially landed in theaters in late 1973, expectations were inescapable. Based on the sensational, bestselling 1969 autobiography by Henri Charriere, the French convict who would ...