Hitman dramedy “Knok,” pandemic-thriller “LT-21,” and dystopian sendup “Rictus” will head off Have A Good One’s (HAGO) Mipcom slate, because the Paris-based TV growth and gross sales firm has boarded two further sequence presently in manufacturing.
Produced by Mifa Pictures (Groupe StoryPlus) and N22 Productions for 13ème Rue France, and created by Guillaume Duhesme, Bastien Ughetto and Lucie Moreau, the off-kilter “Knok” follows a hapless single-dad inducted into the underworld and made an unwilling contract-killer after by accident witnessing successful. César-winner Sylvie Testud (“Fear and Trembling”) and up-and-comer Johann Cuny lead the solid for a crazy six-part season that gained acclaim on the La Rochelle Fiction Festival earlier this 12 months.
Given the highlight on the Biarritz Unifrance Rendez-vous final month, eco-thriller “LT-21” tracks a disquieting pandemic plot about a global virus that forces amnesia on these stricken. Actors Arnaud Valois (“BPM”) and Léonie Simaga (“The Eddy”) play a pair medical doctors working to combat this new plague whereas disentangling their very own thorny emotional historical past when one among them falls in poor health. Written and directed by Mélisa Godet, the OCS-commissioned sequence was co-produced by Emma Javaux of Une Fille and Alain Attal of Trésor.
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Winner of finest comedy at March’s Series Mania, the farcical “Rictus” follows a would-be messiah who would possibly deliver mirth again to the plenty in a dystopian world the place laughter is prohibited. Fred Testot (“The Mantis”), Ophelia Kolb (“Call My Agent!”) and Youssef Hajdi (“The Flame”) prepared the ground, whereas Arnaud Malherbe and Marion Festraëts created the broad comedy for OCS. Cinéfrance Studios produced.
Looking additional afield, HAGO has additionally boarded two further sequence presently in manufacturing, backing true-crime thriller “The Cat” and octogenarian romantic comedy “Sex (re)Education.”
Written by Marine Gacem and directed by Indra Siera, “The Cat” retraces the true story of a bunch of sexual assault victims who labored collectively to catch their assailant – a discreet home-invader who would invade and assault with out leaving a hint, incomes the nickname The Cat. Set within the Nineteen Nineties and early 2000s, the six-part thriller follows from the victims’ points-of-view as they combat for recognition after which unite to deliver this prison to justice.
Currently in manufacturing on season two, romantic comedy “Sex (re)Education” a follows a pair of golden agers who discover love in a retirement home, re-experiencing that adolescent studying curve round issues of the guts and questions of the physique for a second time in life. Launched final 12 months, season one has since been celebrated at festivals throughout the globe, and has piqued curiosity in territories within the UK, US, Ireland and English-speaking Canada.
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