You may not remember Netflix’s first French movie, but it’s getting the rights to an American remake…with Sacha Baron Cohen and Rosamund Pike!

Imagine waking up in a matriarchal society. As an aspiring Don Juan, you must learn to decode the reverse codes of this new world as you fall in love with a strong and young cannibal woman.

It was the starting pitch for I’m Not an Easy Man, a romantic comedy released in 2018 on Netflix, which gave the French branch a chance to launch into the cinema market. If no one today remembers this production by Vincent Elbaz and Marie Sophie Ferdan, the American platform has just announced the upcoming release of the remake.

encore, repetition

Titled Ladies First and directed by Thea Sharrock, this comedy is based on the same idea: Sacha Baron Cohen falls into the shoes of a womanizer who finds herself walking even though women dominate the world. And he falls under the spell of Rosamund Pike…

While the idea is promising on paper and these two talents have nothing to prove, the final outcome remains to be seen. In the French version, which was not at all convincing, subscribers especially regretted the avalanche of clichés, the caricature taken to the extreme without any thought, and also the lack of humor.

Note that this is not the first time that Netflix has enjoyed producing remakes of French films. That’s what happened recently in the Spanish romantic comedy L’amour au pied du mur, inspired by Little, Many, Blind with Clovis Kornilak and Melanie Bernier.

While you wait to discover Ladies First next year, you can still watch or watch the French version, which is still available on Netflix and which is only 1 hour long. It continues on the 35th…