Happy and accomplished, Ellias becomes the new artistic director of a famous French Haute Couture house. When he learns that his father, whom he has not seen for many years, has just died of a heart attack, Ellias goes to Quebec to settle the estate. The young creator will discover that he has inherited much worse than his father's fragile heart.
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The Successor is a 2023 thriller drama film directed by Xavier Legrand. Adapted from Alexandre Postel's 2015 novel L'Ascendant, the film stars Marc-André Grondin as Ellias Barnes, a Canadian man who has become head of a major fashion house in Paris, but must face up to his past when his father unexpectedly dies.
