Twenty-eight years after its theatrical release, La Haine has remained a cult work for French cinema. Directed by Mathieu Kassovitz, this film narrates the reaction of a city following a police blunder. It will be a great success with more than two million admissions and eleven César nominations, with the statuette for best film as the key.
Nearly three decades later, the work will experience a new life. With its subject matter still grounded in reality, La Haine will be adapted into a musical. Mathieu Kassovitz announced it himself in a video shot in black and white, like the film. “We’ve been working on a new La Haine project for two years, not in the cinema, but La Haine ‘live’, a mixture of cinema and spectacle,” he explains.
The director seems totally taken with this new project, as he explains: “I work with a cast of very talented people from different walks of life. We will be very respectful of the original work. It’s been thirty years since we touched on this project, we’ve aged, but we’re still on the attack and we still have things to say. »
The actors still had to be found to replace the main roles played by Vincent Cassel, Saïd Taghmaoui and Hubert Koundé in 1995. Kassovitz therefore launched a call for candidates: “We are looking for people who can do everything, artists who can sing, to dance, to rap, of course to play comedy. If you feel you have the shoulders to fill these sneakers, come participate, the casting starts now, for the whole summer. »
