Netflix, including one of its productions, The Power of the Dogis racing for the lead in Oscar nominations, establishing itself as a major player in cinema and driving the point home for 2022 with an armada of films and series featuring the biggest names.
The Gray Man
Netflix international films line up Hollywood stars in directing and acting: Jessica Chastain, Judd Apatow, Guillermo del Toro, Ryan Gosling, Daniel Craig… culminating in The Gray Man, the platform’s first super production. Directed by the Russo brothers, who are among the biggest hits in the Marvel universe (Captain America, Avengers), the film will be the first installment of an action film franchise based on the eponymous novel by Mark Greaney, co-author of the adventures of Jason Bourne.
Its central character, a former CIA agent converted into a contract killer, is played by Ryan Gosling who will face Chris Evans among an audience of other stars: Ana de Armas, Wagner Moura, Dhanush or Regé-Jean Page.
In the same vein of profitable movie franchises, Netflix will stream this year At loggerheads 2 where Daniel Craig will resume his role as a private detective to elucidate a new enigma in Greece surrounded by Edward Norton, Janelle Monae or Kate Hudson.
In France, Netflix is also exploiting the vein of successful film sequels with the return in early May of its house star Omar Sy, under contract for several years with the platform, in Far from the ring roadthe police comedy sequel The other side of the ring road (2012) which he wears in duet with Laurent Laffite.
Coming too Lost ball 2the second installment of the eponymous action film, which had accumulated more than 37 million views worldwide after its first month of release in 2020, establishing the popularity of French-style muscular feature films such as Bronx or more recently Tirelesslywith Franck Gastambide.
On the series side, the platform is betting in France on Funnycreated by screenwriter Fanny Herrero (Ten percent) which plunges into the world of stand-up, but also into documentaries Johnny by Johnny on the French rock icon. She will also put French rap in the spotlight with New schoola docu-reality series in which Niska, Shay and SCH search for the next nugget in hip-hop.