Frank Gastambide and Alban Lenoir are in the cast of Netflix's latest French action film, "The Wages of Fear", a remake of a great classic released in 1953.
Netflix subscribers can discover a new French action film this Friday. A remake of The Wages of Fear, a cult 1950s film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, is available on the streaming platform. This is the fourth film adaptation of the novel of the same name, published in 1949 and written by Georges Arnaud.
The classic film, which starred Yves Montant and Charles Vanel, won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. This time, it is Julien Leclerc who is working on directing, while the cast is made up of Franck Gastambide, Alban Lenoir, Ana Girardo and Sofiane Zermani (better known as Fianso).
And the filmmaker assured Le Parisien that, despite the obvious title of the feature film, that it was “not a remake, but a new story”: “We had to keep the DNA, a team who will transport nitroglycerin to extinguish a well, but anchor the new story in 2024 in an imaginary country. The characters and their relationships with each other also had to be of our time.”
In the middle of the desert, a fire breaks out in an oil well. Faced with the threat this represents for the local population, the oil company must do everything to avoid disaster. She hires four mercenaries to transport two trucks loaded with nitroglycerin. Indeed, a pocket of gas under the well is fueling the fire and exploding it seems to be the only solution. The shock team has barely 24 hours to travel 800 km through a hostile environment.
The remake of the cult film The Wages of Fear has been available since March 29, 2024 on Netflix. To find out if the crack team will manage to avoid disaster during this perilous adventure, all you need to do is subscribe to the streaming platform. Remember that the subscription is paid, the price can vary between 5.99 euros per month (for an essential subscription with advertisements), 13.49 euros per month (standard subscription) and 19.99 euros per month (premium subscription).
