In an early scene of French director Stéphan Castang’s Cannes Critics’ Week entry Vincent Must Die, a colleague of the film’s titular protagonist whacks him around the head with his laptop. A littl…
is one of the first projects to come to fruition for Wild West, the joint Blumhouse-style venture created by Thierry Lounas’ French film company Capricci and Goodfellas in 2021 to develop and produce French genre cinema. The screenplay by Mathieu Naert was originally developed in Capricci’s So Film Genre Screenwriting Lab, which laid the foundations for the creation of Wild West.
“I was a script consultant on the residency but on another project,” says Castang. “Thierry asked me to look at the script and whether I would be interested in directing it. Initially, I wasn’t too keen, as I like to write my own films, but when I read it, I felt a complicity. There was something in it that chimed with my own neurosis. I felt I could find a place for myself in the story. I also like the way it mixed lots of genres.
Castang reveals that he drew on the work of John Carpenter, Luis Buñuel and Ducournau, adding his own humor and nods to everyday French life. He also picked the cast, led by Karim Lekou opposite Vimala Pons. “Karim is a great actor and he had two qualities that worked for this role. On one hand, he comes over as a bit banal, as Mr. Average. And on the other he has a very singular look.”
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