After 2024’s L’Amour ouf (4.7 million attendees), one of the most ambitious films of 2025 will feature Adele Exarchopoulos and Gilles Lelouch. Gilles Lelouch returns to his place as an actor and will star alongside a great cast in addition to Adele Exarchopoulos: Louis Garrel, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Artus and Thomas Bangalter (of Daft Punk). Romain Duris will also be in the credits, replacing Xavier Dolan, who was previously announced in the film’s casting.
This film is Chien 51, a new work by Cédric Jimenez (Bac Nord, Novembre) and we meet Hugo Selignac (as well as L’amour ouf) in the production process.
magazine first.publishes the first photo from the film in an online article and in its new issue, which is on newsstands now.
The premier was able to get some information from his director, Cedric Jimenez.
Regarding the adaptation of Laurent Gaudí’s novel, he points out: “The world and the characters are still there, but we’ve moved away from the book, changed the story to a detective story, and added things, including artificial intelligence, that aren’t in the novel..”
“An enhanced present with a certain dystopian dimension”
The premier adds that the director prefers to avoid the term “sci-fi” in favor of the term.A heightened present, with a certain dystopian dimension“.
and added: “This is not a minority report, AI does not predict crime.“The story takes place over two weeks:”We are on something very compact and very rhythmic.”
A futuristic thriller set in Paris
show Nice gestureon France 2, was also able to go behind the scenes of the film and go to one of the scenes of the filming of the 14th arrondissement of Paris.
it is “Futuristic thriller in which artificial intelligence helps the police to break up the rebellion. All similarities with reality…” Journalist Pierre Leskiur explains in his voice. On his microphone, Cedric Jimes explains:We are quite close to today, but with an increased, pessimistic version or at least one that has developed in a certain direction.”
Adele Exarchopoulos plays an elite police officer, and Gilles Lelouch, “Disillusioned old cop, ex-drug addict, a bit of a comeback”who falls under the spell of Adele Exarchopoulos’s character. “CThis will give it a kind of second wind, renewal, rush and even idealGilles Lelouch adds.
Adele Exarchopoulos, who Adele Exarchopoulos told our microphone, met during the promotion of the film Planète B, as well as the French film Waiting (in theaters December 25):This is a film set in the near future, there is an entire investigation. Paris is divided into three“.
Beau Geste’s reportage promises action scenes. The first images revealed reveal a chase and shoot-out in the middle of Reeve’s party, with 300 extra dancers and creatures of the night…
Minority Report, The Sons of Man, or even Strange Days as a reference
“This is a film that combines quite a bit of what I could do in previous films. It was almost a desire to close.”The police trilogy” is “.THE The subject of a person-facing machine is artificial intelligence at the service of the stateCedric Jimenez cites Children of Man and Strange Days as a reference.
We learn that the budget of the film is very high, at the same height as the Count of Monte Cristo, ie 35 million euros.
Dog 51 release date is October 15, 2025. Filming just finished in December 2024.
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