Netflix has premiered the teaser trailer for its new adaptation of Henri-Georges Clouzot’s iconic 1953 French journey thriller “The Wages of Worry”.
The movie was based mostly on the novel by Georges Arnaud and advised the story of a bunch of 4 determined males; every caught in the identical backwater desert city for various causes.
They comply with danger their lives transporting gallons of nitroglycerin throughout miles of dangerously unsafe terrain to assist extinguish a raging oil discipline hearth.
The work was tailored to the display screen once more by “The French Connection” filmmaker William Friedkin in his 1977 movie “Sorcerer” – shifting the placement to the South American jungle, and a cargo of aged dynamite which is sweating nitroglycerin.
Clouzot’s movie was thought-about a cinematic traditional upon launch and gained awards, whereas Friedkin’s took time to earn that mark and is now thought-about an missed masterpiece.
This new take hails from French motion director Julien Leclercq (“The Assault”) who tailored the unique movie along with his “Ganglands” co-writer Hamid Hlioua.
Franck Gastambide, Alban Lenoir, Ana Girardot and Sofiane Zermani have signed on to star while Leclercq and Julien Madon will produce by means of Labyrinthe Movies and TF1 Studio.