Start is advanced! 22 years after 3 Zero, Fabien Onteniente invites us to a sequel, logically called 4 Zero. Still Gerard Lanvin, Isabelle Nanti and Stormy Buggs, the only starters from the first opus to return for the second half, along with newcomers Didier Bourdon, Chaim, Kaaris and Paul Debbie.
Although the release was scheduled for April 9, 2025, it was recently pushed to October 23 this year. That is, on the second day of PSG’s Champions League match at Parc des Princes (against PSV Eindhoven to be exact) and a few days before Clasico Olympique at the Orange Velodrome, which is surely no coincidence.
Released in French cinemas on April 24, 2002, 3 Zero attracted 1,271,238 viewers around Gerard Lanvin, Samuel Le Bihan and Laurent Deutsch. and the story of Tibor Kovacs, a young Hungarian football virtuoso who dreams of playing for the French national team.
To the delight of Manu, his cellmate, who sees him as a gift from heaven and becomes his agent to make him the world’s greatest player.
Co-written by Fabien Onteniente and Hunt director Antonin Furlon, this sequel takes place two decades later. at the time when “Football has changed”To use Kylian Mbappé’s famous quote that inspired the poster’s slogan (“Football has changed, not them!”).
It’s about Sylvie Colonna (Isabelle Nenti), the president of the Haricots d’Arpajon football club, who has rebuilt her life with José Pinto (Didier Bourdon). Together they run a Portuguese restaurant in Pontault-Combault: Churrasco.
But business is going badly, and their son, Manu (Paul Deb), a slightly lost thirty-year-old, dreams of becoming a football agent. One day, he meets a gem: Kidan, a young prodigy who sets the field on fire, already lusting after him.
Seeing in Kidani the hope of getting out of trouble, they decide to call for help Alain Colonna (Gérard Lanvin), who is enjoying a quiet retirement in Tahiti. Among other things, meeting DZ (Kaaris), the most powerful agent in the business, who has his arm until his reputation is bad. And let Kidan join his dream club: PSG.
Presnel Kimpembe in the casting, not Karim Benzema
As in the 2002 film, which featured some of the stars of the era (including Ronaldinho, Jay-Jay Okocha, Mauricio Pochettino), the capital club will be partners in this sequel, with some scenes filmed during the away match. PSG in Rennes last February.
Although its world champion Presnel Kimpembe will be part of the cast, with some names from the world of football joining the actors and actresses.
Didier Drogba, Guy Roux, Roland Courbis, former Prince of the Park David Ginola and Fabrice Abriel, the current coach of the women’s team of Paris Saint-Germain, are on the screen, a priori in their own roles, at the same time, Youtuber Mohamed Heni. But not Karim Benzema, whose name was announced in May 2022.
A little more than a month later, with this team, meetings will be held again on and off the field, and the answers will be aimed at least in the top corner, in a sequence that, you can imagine, will again be based on anecdotes. People working in this field to stretch the line a bit.
Source: Allocine
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