The trailer, electric, slammed in red on a black background the names of the stars who will soon land on Netflix: Ana de Armas, Adam Driver, Joel and Anthony Russo, Omar Sy… This Thursday, the platform unveiled its large cartridges.
Its representatives have hammered home the "ambition" of their programs, insisting on French productions, in which more than 200 million euros will be invested in 2022. This year, Netflix will produce around ten series, eight films and around ten French documentaries.
Here is the program.
On the movie side
“Loin du Périph” arrives at top speed on May 6.
Ten years after "On the other side of the ring road", by David Charhon, and its 2.3 million spectators, the duo of cops embodied by Omar Sy and Laurent Lafitte is reforming.
This time, it is Louis Leterrier (“Le Transporteur”, “Insaisissables”, “Lupin”…) who is directing.
Joined by Izïa Higelin, Sy and Lafitte find themselves in the Alps.
In the first images unveiled on Thursday, we see them disembarking at a meeting of skinheads, driving hard on bumper cars, crossing a supermarket on motorcycles, or doing stunts in the car in the mountains.
"Lost Ball 2", by Guillaume Pierret, before a third part.
Currently being edited after a ten-week shoot between Agde (Hérault), Montpellier and near the Spanish border, the sequel to “Lost Ball” will be put online in the coming months.
The first part was a hit since it had been seen by 37 million households in twenty-eight days.
It told the story of Lino, an ex-con, mechanical genius, crazy about cars, forced to collaborate with the police after a robbery.
"Lost Ball 2" will be a direct sequel and will give "more breadth" to the couple played by Stéfi Celma and Alban Lenoir.
Director Guillaume Pierret told us this fall that there would be "twice as much action" as in the first opus.
"
Lost bullet
is the first French franchise and will be at least a trilogy,” Netflix announced.
"Athena", by Romain Gavras, co-written by Ladj Ly, before the end
of 2022. Romain Gavras' third film (after "Our Day Will Come" and "The World is Yours") is currently in post-production, so it will arrive in the next few months on the platform.
Co-written with Ladj Ly, the director of "Les Misérables", "Athena" takes place in the suburbs of Paris.
It depicts three brothers whose fate falls into chaos when the youngest dies in troubled circumstances.
In the casting, we find Dali Benssalah, Sami Slimane and Anthony Bajon.
A fiction initiated by rapper Kaaris, inspired by a Malian legend.
Directed by Marc Fouchard (who signed "Break" and "Hors du Monde"), "Le Roi des ombres" is a film worn by Kaaris, who proposed the idea to Netflix when he shot "Bronx", by Olivier Marchal.
The feature film is inspired by a Malian legend.
It takes place nowadays, in the suburbs of Paris.
"It's a complex family drama about resilience," Netflix said.
Filmed in 2022, the work will be put online in 2023.
An animated “Pinocchio” by Guillermo Del Toro.
While Disney unveiled this very Thursday the first photo of its “Pinocchio” produced in live action by Robert Zemeckis (“Back to the Future”), and scheduled for September, Netflix confirmed its animated version by Guillermo Del Toro ("The Shape of Water").
No release date announced.
A documentary on Carlos Ghosn broadcast "soon".
Netflix had approached the former Renault boss to make a series about him, but as he revealed to Le Parisien a few weeks ago, Carlos Ghosn did not follow up… The American platform therefore made a documentary on the 'business man.
The first images shown this Thursday evoke the episode of the flight from Japan in a trunk and that of the sumptuous reception organized in Versailles in 2014 – an evening paid for by Renault and which coincided with the 60th birthday of the CEO.
According to Carlos Ghosn, other documentaries are in the works, including one for Apple TV +.
And also…
By the end of 2022 or the beginning of 2023, Netflix will release
“The Gray man”,
by brothers Anthony and Joe Russo, a story of CIA mercenary, psychopath and hitmen “of all nationalities », Performed by Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans and Ana de Armas.
The platform is also preparing
"Knives Out 2"
by Rian Johnson (a third part is also in the pipeline), the adaptation by Andrew Dominik of
"Blonde"
, Joyce Carol Oates' bestseller, or even that of
“Dangerous Liaisons”
by Rachel Suissa, with model and Instagrammer Paola Locatelli.
On the side of the series
A date for the sequel to “Peaky Blinders”.
The adventures of Thomas Shelby, played by Cillian Murphy, are currently continuing across the Channel in the sixth and final season of the fiction.
This will arrive on Netflix on June 10, 2022. As for Arte, historic broadcaster, it does not communicate for the moment on a possible programming.
A comedy by Jean-Pascal Zadi.
The actor and director of “Simply Black” is currently filming “En Place”.
This comic series, in which he plays an educator propelled candidate for the presidential election, is expected in 2023. Also in the cast: Benoît Poelvoorde, Éric Judor or even Fadily Camara.
All about Bernard Tapie.
In
"Wonderman", announced last June, Laurent Lafitte embodies Bernard Tapie.
He is notably accompanied there by Fabrice Luchini, Ophélia Kolb, Hakim Jemili and Joséphine Japy.
Filming just started earlier this week.
“What excited us when Tristan Séguéla and Olivier Demangel came to see us is that there is the story of Bernard Tapie, we know certain parts of it, there are more or less romantic things, more or less verifiable or invented, and it is also a destiny which crosses forty years of the history of France through sport, politics, the arts... We are in a bias of fiction, we do not seek to retrace all the life of Bernard Tapie in a documentalist approach", specified Damien Couvreur, director of the creation of international original series.
“Notre-Dame, la Part du feu” in the fall.
Hervé Hadmar's series will be broadcast in the fall of 2022. The first minutes have been shown to journalists.
We discovered the actress Alice Isaaz, in the skin of a young firefighter, and Simon Abkarian, as the manager of a café-restaurant who asks his customers to write down in a notebook their memories of what they were doing Michael Jackson's day of death, June 25, 2009. A nice introductory sequence for "this great choral series which raises the question of major collective events and their intimate resonance, with some of the characters who were present in Paris the evening of the fire of the cathedral and whose destinies will collide", according to Damien Couvreur.
“Lupin” is still running.
We do not know more about the arrival date of the sequel to “Lupin”.
The new episodes are still in production, the filming started several months ago continues until July.
Paris and its region will remain the main arena of the gentleman burglar embodied by Omar Sy, but the fiction will make a few “surprise” incursions into the provinces.
The Tour de France in series?
Asked about information from the English press announcing a production on the Tour de France, in the manner of “Formula 1: Drivers of their destiny”, Dolores Émile, the head of documentary series, replied: “It is one of the many projects in development, under discussion”, without providing further details.