Dujardin & Lellouche Face Off In "La French"

French stars Jean Dujardin (“The Artist”) and Gilles Lellouche (“Point Blank”) have joined the action thriller "La French" says Variety.

 

The story is set in Marseilles in the 1970s & 1980s, at the time it was the world capital of drug trafficking and the main supplier of heroin to the United States.

Dujardin will star as police magistrate Pierre Michel who waged an obsessive six-year battle to bring down the French Connection, the infamous drug ring--which inspired the 1971 film. Lellouche plays Tany Zampa, a powerful drug lord.

Cédric Jimenez (Paris Under Watch/Aux Yeux De Tous) will call action.

Alain Goldman will produce the pic,

Production is set to kick off in September with a late 2014 release planed