EXCLUSIVE: Michaël R. Roskam has set a high-profile ensemble forged for his upcoming World Battle Two Belgian resistance heist story Le Fake Soir, reuniting him with frequent collaborator Matthias Schoenaerts, star of his 2011 Oscar-nominated breakout Bullhead.
Schoenaerts, whose involvement was introduced in 2023, shall be joined by Mélanie Thierry (Da 5 Bloods, Memoir of Battle), Karim Leklou (Beating Hearts, Jim’s Story), Mara Taquin (The Mohicans, On The Edge), Bouli Lanners (No one Has To Know,The Evening Of The twelfth), Julien Frison (The Evening Of The twelfth) and François Damiens (Canine On Trial, La Famille Belier).
Composer and musician Christophe Chassol (The Worst Individual In The World), recognized for his collaborations with the likes of Phoenix and Frank Ocean, has additionally signed to write down an authentic rating.
Goodfellas will launch gross sales on the characteristic at Cannes, with principal pictures on account of kick off in Belgium in September.
Set in German-occupied Belgium in November 1943, the drama is impressed by wartime occasions surrounding predominant Belgian each day newspaper Le Soir, which got here underneath Nazi Germany’s management following its invasion of the nation in 1940. Its each day providing of German propaganda resulted in it being nicknamed Le Soir Volé (The Stolen Soir).
Within the face of acute hazard in the event that they had been caught within the act, Belgian resistance group the Unbiased Entrance revealed a spoof version, satirizing the German occupiers and their propaganda-controlled newspaper, which got here to be often known as the Le Fake Soir (The False Soir).
Roskam has revisited the story to create an offbeat historic heist film, which shall be delivered to life by an all-star French-speaking forged.
“Le Fake Soir is a basic World Battle II caper within the spirit of Ocean’s Eleven, telling an exhilarating story of ingenuity, braveness, and resistance, echoing the heroism present in Schindler’s Checklist,” stated Goodfellas CEO Vincent Maraval.
The manufacturing marks Roskam’s first characteristic movie since Racer and the Chook, which additionally starred Schoenaerts. In between instances, he directed episodes of Apple+ drama Golden Globe-nominated Black Chook, with Taron Egerton, Paul Walter Hauser and Greg Kinnear and The Drop, starring Tom Hardy.
The characteristic is produced by Belgium’s Frakas Productions and Goodfellas/Rectangle Productions in affiliation with Harbor Males Footage and Nameless Federation. Cineart has taken Benelux Rights. A script is accessible.
