The international microcosm of elite ballet is now getting its own fictionalized drama. “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” creators Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino write, direct, and executive produce Prime Video series “Étoile” about rival dance companies swapping their top dancers as part of a marketing campaign.

Charlotte Gainsbourg leads the series as Geneviève, the interim general director of l’Opera Francais and Le Ballet National, who devises a plan with Jack (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” Emmy winner Luke Kirby), the executive director of the Metropolitan Ballet Theater, to trade their ballerinas for one year. While the series is not based on the actual dancer swap between Paris and New York City in 2009, it’s proof that sometimes real life, especially in the dance world, is stranger than fiction. (Co-creator Palladino told Vanity Fair that it was instead Frederick Wiseman’s documentary “La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet” that inspired “Étoile.