
Netflix nowadays supplied a style of its slate of unique French productions arising in 2022, which contains 25 new titles for release this yr and 20 tasks these days in manufacturing. The slate, decided on and evolved by way of the Netflix France ingenious workforce, reps a complete funding of greater than 200M euros ($221M) throughout 2022. The streamer lately signed a take care of the French trade wherein it dedicated to generating no less than 10 native movies consistent with yr, making an investment about 40M euros ($45M).
A few of the tasks highlighted all through a presentation in Paris nowadays was once Romain Gavras’ previously untitled characteristic, which is now known as Athena. An immersive and fashionable tragedy, it stars Dali Benssalah, Sami Slimane, Anthony Bajon and is co-written with Oscar nominee Ladj Ly (Les Misérables) and Elias Belkeddar. The logline reads: Within the area of a couple of hours following the tragic loss of life in their more youthful brother in troubling cases, the lads’s lives will tip over into chaos.
It was once additionally printed that Guillaume Pierret’s motion movie Misplaced Bullet 2 is the second one a part of what is going to be a trilogy. Additionally arising are motion comedy The Takedown, directed by way of Louis Leterrier and starring Omar Sy and Laurent Lafitte; in addition to Unhealthy Liaisons, a modern teenage adaptation of the eponymous novel.
Pictures had been proven from Name My Agent! author Fanny Herrero’s upcoming sequence Status Up, which matches at the back of the fictitious scenes of the stand-up international and debuts March 18. Additionally on deck is rap festival sequence Rhythm + Glide France which can seek for new skill in Paris, Marseille and Brussels.
Additional tasks come with Wonderman, a chain impressed by way of past due businessman Bernard Tapie which started capturing this week with Laurent Lafitte starring; drama sequence Notre Dame starring Roschdy Zem and going down all through the night time of the devastating fireplace on the landmark cathedral in 2019; documentary sequence Johnny Hallyday: Past Rock, which sees the artist inform his personal tale via many years of unpublished archives; a document about former Renault Chairman Carlos Ghosn who was once arrested in after which escaped from Japan; En Position, a comedy sequence co-created by way of Jean-Pascal Zadi and François Uzan, and Le Roi Des Ombres, directed by way of Marc Fouchard, in line with an unique concept by way of Kaaris and drawing inspiration from an ancestral African legend that’s transposed onto nowadays’s France.
Damien Couvreur, Vice-President Sequence France mentioned, “We’re pleased with bringing new tales to existence and reflecting the variety of French introduction in all of the 25 productions, in all their selection, being launched this yr on Netflix.”