01/07/2005

Announced two years ago, the project Babylon Babies [+see also:
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Written by the novelist Maurice G. Dantec, Babylon Babies follows the adventures of the mercenary hero from La Sirène Rouge (adapted for the screen in 2002 by Olivier Megaton with Jean-Marc Barr in the principal role). Charged with the task of taking a woman across North America on behalf of the military mafia in Eastern Europe, the main character will find himself at the heart of a mafia war for a new bio-tech market, a genetic traffic at international level. It will be the sixth feature by Mathieu Kassovitz, with a script written by the director himself and Eric Besnard. The casting starts for this highly-anticipated techno-thriller, with, no doubt, Jamel Debbouze in the frame

(Translated from French)