Sophie Returns in Re-Creation

I have been quiet recently on Sophie Toscan du Plantier but no longer. Film festival season is upon us and I bring exciting news on the Sophie movie.

The vast majority of you who joined Crime Guy since 2021 will be here for the coverage of the 1996 killing of Sophie Toscan du Plantier. After the Audible podcast West Cork brought the story to a global audience, Jim Sheridan’s Murder at the Cottage and Netflix’s Sophie: A Murder in West Cork followed up with two compelling and detailed TV documentaries. Since then Jim Sheridan’s team have continued work on the case. At one stage I understood this would be an “additional episode” or follow-up epilogue to Murder at the Cottage. However a year or two ago it became clear this had grown into something more ambitious.

The movie Re-Creation is now ready for its audience. I received an email Monday night with links to the new social media accounts. If you are in Ireland or NYC you can find details below to book for the premiere screenings. I hope there will be one in London and will report back via Substack App as soon as I hear anything. Please do get the Substack App because I do post regularly on there some things that do not make it into a full newsletter.

That’s all the news for now. Pretty enormous in Crime Guy’s timeline because it was partly the encouragement of Jim Sheridan and his team that really provided impetus and momentum to this site when it was still on Medium. We have now fully transitioned here to Substack where paid memberships absorb some of the cost of researching and interviewing key people.

I point you back to my extended interview with Geraldine Comiskey, which I can confirm will not be the final time you hear from Geraldine. She is a professional journalist and a local expert in the case going back many years. Her book and subsequent research has led her to form some new theories.

Important Dates

You can watch the world premiere at Tribeca Film Festival on June 8th and those in Ireland your location is the Galway Film Festival July 8th. I hope to report on a UK screening soon.

You can stay in touch with the Re-Creation team via this link including all the social accounts.