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EXCLUSIVE: Other Angle is reuniting pinch French action head David Charhon connected his upcoming Thai boxing play Prison Fight for a Cannes income launch.
Inspired by existent events, it follows 3 brothers who were destined for glory successful nan ringing until their lives started to autumn apart. Kaïs is successful situation and Samy is dying while Abel, nan youngest, a rising boxer, walks distant from everything and heads to Thailand.
Outwardly, nan logic for Abel’s travel is to compete successful an underground tourney known arsenic nan Prison Fight, pitting inmates against outsiders successful a conflict for their freedom, but his existent information is to get his relative retired of jail
The ensemble formed features Tewfik Jallab (Paris Has Fallen) Salim Kechiouche (Mektoub, My Love) Nassim Lyes (Under Paris), Jean-Claude Van Damme and Ava Baya (GTMAX), alongside real-life Prison Fight subordinate Rayan Bouazza and a big of real-life MMA fighters. The movie will sprout later this twelvemonth for a 2027 launch.
Other Angle antecedently sold Charhon’s past movie nan action-comedy The Gardener, and produced and sold his 2021 activity The Last Mercenary.
The movie is among a trio of caller upcoming pictures connected nan company’s Cannes slate which besides see Children of nan Resistance 2.
It is nan 2nd movie by Christophe Barratier (The Chorus, War of nan Buttons), adapted from nan eponymous comic portion astir 3 French childrengrowing up successful a mini French colony during World War Two, who transportation retired mini acts of guidance against nan Nazi.
It reunites nan formed of nan original movie topped by Gérard Jugnot, François-Xavier Demaison, Lucas Hector, Nina Fibrand, Octave Gerbi and Pierre Deladonchamps.
Shooting this summer, it will beryllium released by Studiocanal successful 2027.
The institution is besides moving connected Jean-Luc Gaget’s The Little Butcher astir a butcher’s boy whose dreams of becoming a comic book writer alert successful nan look of his parents’ desire for him to transportation connected nan family business. The formed features Pierre Lottin (The Stranger), India Hair (Parallel Tales) Maud Wyler and Philippe Katerine.
In a caller income acquisition, nan institution will besides motorboat Mélanie Charbonneau’s Canadian roller-hockey drama The Furies on nan world marketplace pursuing its deed theatrical tally backmost home.
