After Bronx, Olivier Marchal is preparing an action series on Netflix

Eight years after the thriller Section Zero, broadcast on Canal+, filmmaker Olivier Marchal is soon returning to the small screen with a new original series for Netflix, which has already started filming in Marseille. The cast was also revealed.

After BronxOlivier Marchal returns to netflix with a new action series in six episodes, which will ultimately not be a sequel or a spin-off of its hit thriller. If for the moment, no element of the plot has leaked, we already know that the series will be interested in a group of police officers with particularly dubious methods who track down a dangerous criminal in order to avoid real carnage in Marseilles. The writing of the screenplay was entrusted to Morade Aissasoui, Sledge Bidounga, Edgar Marie and Kamel Guemra. The French filmmaker was also full of praise for the latter. “He’s a talented boy“, he had confided to our colleagues fromAllocinated. “Karim is a kid who grew up in the neighborhoods. He brings a modernity that I could have distorted. And at the same time, he has the respect of the elders, that’s why I find him very touching (…) He brings his eye to the relationships in the suburbs to which I am a little impervious, because everything has changed so much today.”

Nicolas Duvauchelle, Tewfiq Jallab… who will be starring in this new Netflix series?

Jeanne Goursaud (Barbarians), Tewfiq Jallab (The convoy), Nicolas Duvauchelle (Lost bullet) and Olivier Barthélémy (mastemah) will star in this captivating and thrilling action thriller. Actors Idir Azougli, Florence Thomassin, Lani Sogoyou, Samir Boitard, Adil Dehbi, Wafya Cochet Boukhari, Martial Bezot, Renaud Roussel, Moussa Maaskri and Pascale Petit complete the cast of this new original French production, four episodes of which will be directed by Olivier Marchal .

Bronxa dark and thrilling thriller by Olivier Marchal

While waiting to discover this new series, Netflix subscribers can (re)watch Bronx, a thrilling thriller that takes place in the northern districts of Marseille. Men from the Corsican Bastiani clan commit real carnage in a beach bar. The investigation is entrusted to the BRI of Richard Vronski, a policeman with very particular methods. But this is not to the liking of his rival, Major Costa of the BRB. The situation escalates when a key witness in the case is murdered while in police custody. In the middle of a gang war, Vronski and his men will be forced to make choices with serious consequences. The film – featuring big-name actors and French rap star Kaaris – was a huge hit on the platform, both in France and internationally.

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