Emilia Perez director Jacques Audiard has an thought for a prequel film.
Emilia Pérez is a brand new musical crime comedy film directed by Audiard. Based mostly on Audiard’s opera libretto of the identical identify, the movie stars Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz, and extra.
What did Jacques Audiard say a couple of potential Emilia Perez prequel?
Talking on the 2024 Telluride Movie Pageant, through IndieWire, Audiard revealed he had concepts for an Emilia Pérez prequel; though, he doesn’t appear dedicated to creating the film at this time limit.
“If Audiard had the vitality, he would write the prequel to Emilia Pérez, exhibiting what Manitas was like when he was battling Emilia Pérez deep inside him,” IndieWire’s article reads.
Audiard mentioned, “It might be a film in regards to the time when Manitas is already Emilia, however they’re additionally the drug kingpin, OK?”
Emilia Pérez held its world premiere on the 2024 Cannes Movie Pageant in Could. After holding its North American premiere at Telluride, the movie was additionally proven on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant. It obtained a restricted theatrical launch earlier this yr and is now accessible to stream on Netflix.
“From renegade auteur Jacques Audiard comes Emilia Pérez, an audacious fever dream that defies genres and expectations,” the synopsis for the film reads. “By means of liberating tune and dance and daring visuals, this odyssey follows the journey of 4 exceptional girls in Mexico, every pursuing their very own happiness. The fearsome cartel chief Emilia (Karla Sofía Gascón) enlists Rita (Zoe Saldaña), an unappreciated lawyer caught in a dead-end job, to assist pretend her dying in order that Emilia can lastly dwell authentically as her true self.”
Audiard beforehand instructed Netflix’s Tudum in regards to the film, “Throughout the first lockdown, I wrote a therapy rapidly, and I spotted alongside the best way that it was nearer to an opera libretto than to a movie script — it was damaged down into acts, there have been few units, the characters had been archetypal. The thought of doing an opera had crossed my thoughts as I used to be engaged on [1996’s] A Self-Made Hero.”
