{"id":43313,"date":"2019-10-31T15:56:51","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T14:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mk2films.com\/?p=43313"},"modified":"2019-10-31T15:56:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T14:56:51","slug":"afm-mk2-films-announces-new-comedy-for-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mk2films.com\/en\/afm-mk2-films-announces-new-comedy-for-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"AFM: mk2 films Announces New Comedy for 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mk2films.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mk2 films<\/a> boards\u00a0new comedy <a href=\"https:\/\/mk2films.com\/en\/film\/the-big-hit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">THE BIG HIT<\/a> by writer-director Emmanuel Courcol. The films tells the story of Etienne, an often out-of-work but endearing actor played by Kad Merad, who runs a theater workshop in a prison. He brings\u00a0together an unlikely troupe of prisoners to stage Samuel Beckett\u2019s famous play\u00a0<em>Waiting for Godot<\/em>. When he is allowed to take the colorful band of convicts on a tour outside of prison, Etienne finally has the chance to thrive.\u00a0Each date is a new success and a unique relationship grows between this\u00a0ad hoc\u00a0group of actors and their director. But soon comes the final performance in Paris. Will their last night together be the biggest hit of them all?<\/p>\n<p>This bigger-than-life story is inspired by true events. In 1985, Swedish actor Jan J\u00f6nson effectively staged\u00a0Waiting for Godot\u00a0with a group of inmates in Sweden. The planned premiere outside the prison, at the Gothenburg City Theatre, had to be cancelled when the participant prisoners escaped. Samuel Beckett himself commented in the news:\u00a0<em>&#8220;That&#8217;s the best thing that happened to this play since I wrote it!&#8221;<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/mk2films.com\/en\/film\/the-big-hit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">THE BIG HIT<\/a> is the first retelling of this story and is approved by Jan J\u00f6nson. The character of Etienne, played by Kad Merad (known for\u00a0<em>Bienvenue chez les Ch\u2019tis<\/em>\u00a0and C\u00e9sar Award Winner for\u00a0<em>Don&#8217;t Worry, I&#8217;m Fine<\/em>) is based on J\u00f6nson. The film also stars Marina Hands (C\u00e9sar Award for Best Actress in\u00a0<em>Lady Chatterley<\/em>) as the prison warden and Laurent Stocker (<em>An Officer and a Spy<\/em>, C\u00e9sar Award Winner for\u00a0<em>Hunting and Gathering<\/em>) as Etienne\u2019s best friend.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;We instantly fell in love with this script about a motley group of prisoners and their theatre teacher who set out on the most unlikely of adventures. The true events that the script is based on are clearly quite extraordinary. Emmanuel Courcol does such an excellent job transposing the story to modern day France and conveying how these delinquents overcome their differences and forget about their everyday life in prison. It\u2019s also their ticket to freedom&#8221;<\/em>, says Juliette Schrameck, Managing Director of mk2 films.<\/p>\n<p>Emmanuel Courcol is the writer of French box office sensation <em>In The Name of the Land<\/em> starring Guillaume Canet and critically-acclaimed <em>Welcome<\/em> by Philippe Lioret. He wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/mk2films.com\/en\/film\/the-big-hit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">THE BIG HIT<\/a> in collaboration with Thierry de Carbonni\u00e8res and Khaled Amara. <a href=\"https:\/\/mk2films.com\/en\/film\/the-big-hit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">THE BIG HIT<\/a> is his second feature, after <em>Ceasefire<\/em>, 2016.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mk2films.com\/en\/film\/the-big-hit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">THE BIG HIT<\/a> is produced by Agat Films and coproduced by actor-director Dany Boon through his company Les Productions du Ch&#8217;timi. The film is currently in production, with a delivery in 2020. Memento Films will release the feature in France. <a href=\"https:\/\/mk2films.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mk2 films<\/a> is handling international sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mk2 films boards\u00a0new comedy THE BIG HIT by writer-director Emmanuel Courcol. The films tells the story of Etienne, an often out-of-work but endearing actor played by Kad Merad, who runs a theater workshop in a prison. He brings\u00a0together an unlikely troupe of prisoners to stage Samuel Beckett\u2019s famous play\u00a0Waiting for Godot. 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