In a week of relative viewer ennui for the Netflix audience, the French remake of local-language action-film classic Wages of Fear yielded 32.4 million viewing hours and a platform-leading 18.3 million account views, with latter metric, now Netflix's preferred measuring stick, making it the No. 1 title on the top streaming platform for the week of April 1-7, per Netflix's weekly global ranker.
Better known in France as Le Salaire de la Peur, the 1953 original starred Yves Montand, Peter van Eyck, Charles Vanel and Folco Lulli as four down-on-their-luck guys who take an explosively dangerous gig hauling nitroglycerin across the desert to put out an oil fire.
