EXCLUSIVE: Other Angle is reuniting with French action director David Charhon on his upcoming Thai boxing drama Prison Fight for a Cannes sales launch.
Inspired by true events, it follows three brothers who were destined for glory in the ring until their lives started to fall apart. Kaïs is in prison and Samy is dying while Abel, the youngest, a rising boxer, walks away from everything and heads to Thailand.
Outwardly, the reason for Abel’s trip is to compete in an underground tournament known as the Prison Fight, pitting inmates against outsiders in a fight for their freedom, but his true motivation is to get his brother out of jail
The ensemble cast 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 participant Rayan Bouazza and a host of real-life MMA fighters. The film will shoot later this year for a 2027 launch.
Other Angle previously sold Charhon’s last film the action-comedy The Gardener, and produced and sold his 2021 work The Last Mercenary.
The film is among a trio of new upcoming pictures on the company’s Cannes slate which also include Children of the Resistance 2.
It is the second film by Christophe Barratier (The Chorus, War of the Buttons), adapted from the eponymous comic strip about three French childrengrowing up in a small French village during World War Two, who carry out small acts of resistance against the Nazi.
It reunites the cast of the original film topped by Gérard Jugnot, François-Xavier Demaison, Lucas Hector, Nina Fibrand, Octave Gerbi and Pierre Deladonchamps.
Shooting this summer, it will be released by Studiocanal in 2027.
The company is also working on Jean-Luc Gaget’s The Little Butcher about a butcher’s son whose dreams of becoming a comic book author fly in the face of his parents’ desire for him to carry on the family business. The cast features Pierre Lottin (The Stranger), India Hair (Parallel Tales) Maud Wyler and Philippe Katerine.
In a recent sales acquisition, the company will also launch Mélanie Charbonneau’s Canadian roller-hockey comedy The Furies on the international market following its hit theatrical run back home.
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