‘The Substance’ Line & Govt Producer Boards Toni Collette Image ‘A French Pursuit’

EXCLUSIVE: French movie business veteran Nicolas Royer, who was line and government producer on Coralie Fargeat’s Cannes buzz title The Substance, has boarded Catherine Hardwicke’s upcoming characteristic A French Pursuit, starring Toni Collette.

The manufacturing, which is remake of Caroline Vignal’s 2020 French hit My Donkey, My Lover & I (Antoinette Dans Les Cévennes), starring Laura Calamy, is because of shoot within the Cévennes area in south-central France this summer time.

Royer will line and government produce the film, which is lead produced by Christopher Simon at New Sparta Productions and Collette underneath her Vocab Movies banner. 

The brand new manufacturing shall be first official gig for Royer’s firm Voulez-Vous Manufacturing Providers, which he created in 2023 to construct on his work on The Substance.

Royer was line and government producer on the physique horror, lead produced by the UK’s Working Title and starring Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley and Dennis Quaid.

The film loved a buzzy world premiere in Competitors in Cannes over the weekend and provoked debate amongst movie people on the Croisette.

The movie shot from June to November 2022 in Paris and the South of France in addition to Studios in Épinay-sur-Seine, outdoors of the French capital, after which did intensive VFX work within the nation.

Collaborating intently with Coralie, Royer devised a bespoke answer, optimizing shoot logistics and post-production in France whereas capitalizing on the 40% French tax credit score, rendering the challenge possible inside finances constraints.

Beneath France’s Tax Rebate For Worldwide Manufacturing (TRIP), productions obtain a ten% bonus on the baseline 30% rebate after they do VFX work in France.

“From conceptualization to the Cannes pink carpet, The Substance has epitomized a labor of affection and innovation,” mentioned Royer,

“It’s a extremely bold fantasy movie combining ‘old school’ particular results with cutting-edge visible applied sciences, necessitating a non-standard taking pictures size, predominantly inside studio confines.”

Royer has co-founded Voulez-Vous Manufacturing Providers within the function of government producer, with long-time collaborator Olivier Lagny.

The pair first started working collectively in 2006 after they recreated a storm for the crime drama Sick Wind. They adopted this with Niki Caro’s interval movie The Vintner’s Luck, set within the early nineteenth century in opposition to the backdrop of the vineyards of Burgundy.

Their purpose is to assist native and worldwide manufacturing in accessing services, areas and crew in addition to navigate the TRIP, in probably the most useful approach.

Coming into the movie business in 1997, Royer has supported administrators and producers on greater than 30 movies, taking pictures in France outdoors the nation, together with Guillaume Canet’s Jappeloup, Halle Berry and Daniel Craigpicture Kings and Netflix drama Madame Claude.

Lagny has has labored as a location supervisor and a line producer, with this credit score together with Omar Sy-series Lupin, Sofia Coppola’s Marie-Antoinette, Cédric Jimenez’s The Man with the Iron Coronary heart (director Cédric Jimenez), Jacques Audiard’s Palme d’Or winner Dheepan and Pathé’s upcoming movie Monsieur Aznavour, starring Tahar Rahim because the titular iconic singer.