“Vendetta,” the awaited Corsican blood feud drama-thriller from Marco Cherqui, who produced Jacques Audiard’s breakout film “A Prophet,” might be introduced onto the gross sales market at Series Mania by France TV Distribution.
Set up at CPB Films, behind Rebecca Zlotowski’s 2019 Toronto participant “Savages” and the upcoming sequence enlargement of “A Prophet,” each produced by Cherqui as CPB head of TV drama and cinema, “Vendetta” is co-produced by public broadcaster France TV, the place it is going to air on France 2.
News of its worldwide distribution launch comes simply after “Vendetta” went into manufacturing within the first week of March, capturing in Corsica.
Billed as a mafia thriller and household tragedy, the six-part sequence activates Anto, a Parisian cop of Corsican origin, who returns to his homeland with spouse Vanina, to take over the household winery.
Ambushed, his father is murdered and Anto, wounded, falls into deep coma.
As a toddler, Anto had sworn to his brother – killed quickly after in a vendetta – to interrupt the cycle of vengeance plaguing his household for generations. Awaking 10 years later, he discovers that his now teen son Santu is obsessive about revenge. “How far will Anto go to protect his son and reclaim his life?” the synopsis asks.
“Vendetta” toplines Thierry Neuvic (“Code Unknown,” “Hereafter”) Vahina Giocante (“Bellamy”), Tchéky Karyo (“The Missing”), Stanley Weber (“Borgia”), Laetitia Eïdo (“Fauda”) and Philippe Corti (“Mafiosa”).
Cherqui’s credit additionally soak up, earlier than becoming a member of CPB Films in 2017, comedy sequence “Kabul Kitchen,” a Monte Carlo TV Festival high prize winner, and, at CPB, widespread crime comedy film sequence “Everyone Lies.”
“Vendetta” is co-written and directed by Ange Baserga (“Dealer”), and in addition penned by Emmanuelle Michaux (“Master Crimes”) and Pierre-Marie Mosconi (“Surf Therapy).
The crime drama joins an International distribtion slate at France TV Distribution, the industrial arm of France Télévisions, which additionally consists of renewed comedy sequence “Apsergirl” and thriller “Danger in the Valley,” co-written by bestselling Michel Bussi (“Prison Island”).