This is one of the greatest French action saga: Why no one wants to make the first movie that has received 6.5 million access?

Today, it is easy to say that Taxi Saga is one of the most important successes in French cinema in the late 90s and early 2000, but by the time, several people believed. Initially, Luke Besson was planning to write and establish a project for La Gaumont, but Besson does not have time, shot with a fifth element that is rapidly approaching, a large -scale international blockbuster.

Patrick Brouel in the actors …

Thus, Besson only signs a script for a pizza delivery man in one month, Daniel, who decides to become a taxi driver at Peugeot 406 that he has “struck”. After a number of chances, Daniel soon turns out to be helping the Emilia police officer in the seizure of German bank robbers, Band Des Mercedes, who has not yet escaped the persecution, in the literal sense.

In the beginning, the film had to be made in Paris, but interfered with: the authority to shoot cars on the streets of the big city will be much easier in Marseille. Thus, the rally goes into the city of Marseilles, while Patrick Brouel and Vincent Perez are casting. At the same time, at the same time, Luke Besson officially states that he will not be able to make a taxi and leave to create a fifth element.

The blood of the leaders is just a tour: they leave the project.

Luke Besson is a second passing

Besson then decides to do one of the largest French industrial firms, Debauchery Pierre-AGE Le Pogam, then one of the layouts of Gaumont and founded its own company Europacorp.

On project controllers, he recalls Gerard Pearce, who has not shot fiction since 1981 (key! With Guy Martand and Jane Birkin), but who signed a few years before the ad … Peugeot, precisely:

Luke Besson also replaces the actors in favor of new faces: it will be Samy Naceri and Frédéric Diefenthal. It is an ARP selection that is distributed by a film that, like its soundtrack, trusts rapper Marseille Akhenaton, cardboard.

The taxi was released on April 8, 1998 and amounted to 6.5 million access, which led to the first 10 million access to two years, then a taxi 3 (2003) for 6.1 million and a taxi 4 (2007) with 4.5 million.