In 30 days, Luc Besson wrote the script for “Taxi”: Daniel, a Marseille taxi driver, is offered a job with Emilien, a policeman who failed to get a driver’s license, to break up a gang. Robbers, a banker who roams the region in powerful cars.
Absorbed by the production of The Fifth Element, Luc Besson entrusts the direction of this film to Gerard Pires, who then abandoned the production of feature films in favor of many advertising clips for cars.
If several actors are considered for the role of the two main characters, including Patrick Bruel, Vincent Pérez, Olivier Martínez or Ivan Atal, they all turn down the offer. Then Luc Besson and Gérard Pires agreed on a more risky cast consisting of the then almost unknown Frederic Diefenthal and Sammy Nasser.
A successful bet, because their tandem works like thunder! Add to this rhythm, a great show through crazy chases and stunts, humorous lines that have become iconic and a soundtrack signed by IAM and it is a hit.
When it was released in 1998, more than 6 million French people went to the cinemas. Taxi Thus marking the beginning of a mythical cinematic saga that includes three other opus, directed by Gerard Krawczyk in 2000, 2003, then in 2007, before the latest reboot by Franck Gastambide. A profitable franchise as it has a total of 31 million releases at the national box office.
Taxi Gerard Pires with Sammy Nasser, Frederic Diefenthal, Marion Cotillard…
Tonight on TF1 at 21:10.
Source: Allocine
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