French actor Guillaume Canet is starring, writing, and producing the brand new Netflix thriller Advert Vitam
Rodolphe Lauga (It’s Difficult) is directing the motion movie, which has begun taking pictures in Paris. Netflix will launch the film worldwide subsequent yr.
Canet performs Franck Lazareff who, after surviving an try on his life, finds his spouse has been kidnapped by a mysterious group of armed males. Attempting to rescue her, Frank finds his previous catching up with him. Stéphane Caillard, Nassim Lyes, Zita Hanrot and Alexis Manenti co-star.
Canet and Lauga co-wrote the script to Advert Vitam in affiliation with de David Corona and Canet is producing, along with Jean Cottin for the Cabanes shingle.
Guillaume Canet just lately directed himself as Gallic comedian guide hero Asterix within the stay motion characteristic Asterix & Obelix: The Center Kingdom and appeared within the French thriller Breaking Level. from director Yvan Attal. The multi-hyphenate has directed a number of movies, together with the 2006 crime thriller Inform No One and the 2010 dramedy Little White Lies.
Netflix is doubling down on the motion and thriller genres because it builds up its originals slate in France. Alongside Advert Vitam, the streamer is producing a remake of the 1953 French motion traditional The Wages of Worry with author/director Julien Leclercq (Ganglands, Earth and Blood) starring Franck Gastambide, Alban Lenoir, Ana Girardot, and Sofiane Zermani; and have tapped prime stunt coordinator Olivier Schneider (Quick X, Moon Knight) to direct GTMax, a criminal offense actioner that includes Ava Baya as a former motocross prodigy.
Xavier Gens (Hitman, Gangs of London), who helmed just a few episodes of Netflix’s Lupin with Omar Sy, will direct his first characteristic for the streamer, an untitled style film starring Bérénice Bejo (The Artist) and set throughout the Paris Olympics this summer time.