Jamel Debbouze will be the star of Mercato, a comedy about football
From the creators of the Tapie series.
Two years later The New Toy by James Hutt, facing Daniel Auteil, Jamel Debbouze returns to the sets as an actor. While the troublemaker has just produced the series for Canal + Terminalan office sitcom in an airport, with Ramzy Bedia, the actor will film from March Mercatoa comedy about football which he had the idea for.
If Jamel will be the star, the project will be carried out by Tristan Séguéla and written by Olivier Demangel And Thomas Finkielkraut based on an original idea by Jamel Debbouze.
Séguéla and Demangel have just produced an excellent series Tapieon Netflix, which already partially dealt with the behind the scenes of football in the 1990s, with the OM part of the life of the famous businessman, which cost him prison in the context of the fixed match against Valenciennes.
Mercato will take a more humorous angle to make fun of the behind the scenes of today’s football and its big tickets. Jamel Debbouze will play Driss, an agent adrift, has seven days to save his skin before the end of the transfer window…
No further casting announcements at this time. A theatrical release is already scheduled for November 27, 2024.
