The cult film La Haine, released in 1995, will be adapted by “end of 2024” into a musical show for a tour of the Zéniths de France which will begin in Paris, actor and director Mathieu Kassovitz announced on Sunday. “La Haine live (will be) a mixture of cinema and spectacle”, he specified on Instagram, promising to be “very respectful of the original work”.
“It’s been 30 years since we touched on this project, we’ve aged, but we’re still on the attack and we still have things to say,” continues Kassovitz, who is launching a vast recruitment campaign on social networks. talents, including those who will play the three main characters, Vinz, Saïd and Hubert, played in the film by Vincent Cassel, Saïd Taghmaoui and Hubert Koundé.
Its director Mathieu Kassovitz had already mentioned this musical adaptation project in an interview with AFP for the 25th anniversary of La Haine, in 2020. “We are all children of La Haine! If you like French cinema, and all that, you still have a relationship with this film, it’s part of people’s lives”, he explained then, considering that the film with two million admissions, with always burning themes , suburbs and police blunders, was “part of French culture”.
