When Michaël Youn Becomes “Fatal Bazooka”
In the late 2000s, Michaël Youn finds himself at a crossroads. A renowned comedian, famous for his show Morning live and his parody clips, in previous years he tried his hand at comedy on the big screen, with very mixed results. If The Beuze, The 11 Commandments AND Iznogoud they were commercial successes, critics stick out their tongues and his acting skills are mocked. His next appearances in comedies Uncontrollablethe drama Hero OR lucky Luca they then seem to confirm the disenchantment towards French cinema.
But Michaël Youn is a resourceful man who does not easily admit defeat. He therefore decided in 2010 to return to his roots, and more specifically to his gift for musical parody, which was already at the heart of The Beuze with “Le Frunkp”. Then he returns to his character of Fatal Bazookaa dazzling rapper who takes up the codes of gangsta rap American and which brought him to success in 2006 with the single “Take off your hood“The following year, he and Pascal Obispo offered the brilliant”Nighttime bad faith“, cult parody of the song “Confessions nuits” by Diam’s and Vitaa.
Success Fatal
Three years later, Michaël Youn dedicated a film to him: Fatal. He co-wrote, directed, starred in and co-produced this comedy, surrounded by the cast including Stéphane Rousseau, his lifelong partner Vincent Desagnat, Fabrice Éboué, Armelle and Isabelle Funaro and even Reem Kherici.
Rapper Fatal Bazooka is the “number one”, until one day an “electro-bio” singer, Chris Prolls, comes to steal the spotlight and takes this precious place. Drunk as a slob during the “Music Awards” ceremony, Fatal puts on a deplorable show on stage, causing a scandal and inducing the press to boycott him, causing his ruin and divorce. Fatal then returns to his home village in Savoy and tries to become a shepherd, like his father. But, of course, this job is not for him and, encouraged by his mother and his friend Heidi who remained in Savoy, Fatal decides to take his revenge…
Upon his exit, Fatal it’s a success in the rooms. Deliciously regressive and inventive, Michaël Youn shines in this character, certainly the most accomplished of his creations, and links well-considered references to 8 miles, Zoolander, evasionthe group Daft Punk, Shining…
Self Fatal While it doesn’t quite hit the box office highs of Michaël Youn’s first appearances at the cinema, this musical comedy-parody produced by him is attracting more 1.2 million viewers in the rooms. Above all, the critics, without being unanimous, gave it a rather warm welcome, so much so that Télérama awarded it three stars and Première wrote that “Michaël Youn imposes an extremely recommendable joke“.
A sequel project planned
A few months after the release of FatalMichaël Youn posts a status on Facebook asking his audience if they fatal 2 he would be interested. With more than 70,000 likes and 10,000 comments, he then wrote:think about it seriously“. However, to date no sequel has been launched, despite statements by the actor and director TV for leisure time in 2020:
We are talking about it with the producer of the first work, we want to continue this adventure. I have found one or two proposals that could constitute a great story, but I have not written the script yet. I really want it to be different from the first, for this sequel to bring something new.
Source: Cine Serie
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