Belleville Cop

Belleville Cop (2018)

Le Flic de Belleville

When a childhood friend from Miami gets killed after he comes to warn of encroaching drug gangs, Baaba moves to Miami and teams up with a local officer to bring down the criminals.

Date of release
2018-10-17
TMDB
5.0 / 10 (400)
Runtime
1h 50m
Genres
Comedy, Crime
Director
Rachid Bouchareb

Casting

Interesting facts

Belleville Cop is a French police comedy film directed by Rachid Bouchareb and premiere-released in 2018. The lead actors are Omar Sy, Luis Guzmán and Franck Gastambide.

Production

In 2011, Rachid Bouchareb announced his desire to make an "American trilogy" on relations between the United States and the Arab world. The first of the three films should have been the buddy movie Belleville Cop, with Jamel Debbouze and Queen Latifah. The first finally became the TV movie Just like a Woman, a road movie with Sienna Miller and Golshifteh Farahani, broadcast in 2012.

The now-third project was then renamed Le Cop de Belleville for France. The main roles were then taken over in 2017 by Omar Sy and Luis Guzmán.

For the writing of the screenplay, Bouchareb cited Beverly Hills Cop and also buddy movies like 48 Hrs., Lethal Weapon and L'emmerdeur. He collaborated with one of the 48 Hrs. writers, Larry Gross.

The filming began in March 2017 in Paris, in the 20th arrondissement. It later continued in Miami and Los Angeles, as well as Riohacha, La Guajira, Colombia.

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