French Genre Outfit Wild West Unveils New Slate Of Film & TV Projects After Buzzy Cannes Debut For ‘Vincent Must Die’
22.06.2023 - 13:50
/ deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Wild West, the genre-focused joint venture between French film companies Goodfellas (ex-Wild Bunch International) and Capricci, has unveiled a third slate of projects at a co-financing event in Nantes.
The two-day meeting, running June 22-23, comes hot on the heels of a successful Cannes Critics’ Week world premiere for Stéphan Castang’s thriller Vincent Must Die.
The film, which racked up strong sales and reviews, was on Wild West’s inaugural 2021 slate.
Goodfellas co-head Vincent Maraval and Capricci CEO Thierry Lounas created Wild West with the aim of developing and producing a pipeline of fast-turnaround, relatively low budget, French-language genre films.
The initiative grew out of their collaboration on Capricci’s So Film Genre screenwriting residency, which previously developed films such as Just Philippot’s 2020 breakout horror The Swarm.
The six new feature projects include Italian screenwriter and director Giovanni Aloï’s thriller The Golden Rule about a bicycle courier who believes he is caught up in an anti-capitalist plot when Gérard Depardieu dies of poisoning shortly after he delivers a soup to the actor.
Aloï’s debut film The Third War, about a young soldier racked with paranoia as he patrols the streets of Paris as part of an anti-terrorism unit, screened in Venice’s Horizons sidebar in 2020.
The slate also features two projects from writer and director Loïc Gaillard: the thriller The Hound and comedy sci-fi D-Days.
In The Hound, a mother bent on revenge hunts her son’s killer in the company of his aggressive American Bulldog.
Sci-fi comedy D-Days sees a young man travel back in time to June 1944 to witness the Normandy beach landings. In the process, changes the course of history and