Montreal – The idea sounded just creepy enough that Montreal producer Vivianne Morin of Cité-Amérique got involved with Bon Voyage. The three-part, Canada/U.K. copro miniseries – set to air on The Movie Network, Showcase, Super Écran and ITV late this year – is a taut $6.2-million thriller in which a couple and their two children are repeatedly tormented by a freakish couple while on a camping trek across France.

‘[British production house] Box TV came to us with the script,’ Morin explains. ‘And we really liked it. It made sense to do it with Montreal and the Laurentians sitting in for France. That meant we weren’t eligible for cable fund money. But it didn’t matter to us. We saw this as a very saleable project.’

Morin says a big part of the miniseries’ lure is the genre’s broad audience appeal. John Fawcett (Ginger Snaps, Last Exit) was short listed and ultimately brought on as director.

Shooting began on May 23 and wraps on June 29. Bon Voyage will then resume shooting for one week in France. It stars Faye Ripley (Hustle), Macha Grenon (Familia), Dan Ryan, Rachael Blake (Suburban Shootout) and Ben Miles (V for Vendetta).

Bon Voyage is lit by Serge Ladouceur (Mambo Italiano) and will post in the U.K. Morin exec produces for Cité-Amérique, with coproducers Jake Lushington, Gub Neal, Patrick Irwin and Justin Thomson-Glover of Box TV.