Currently number 5 of the TOP Netflix, the Israeli series Bad Boy immerses us in the prison for minors in the country. A harsh fiction that has its origins from a true story.
Since the incredible success of the series Adolescence On Netflix, everyone is already trying to find out who will be their worthy heiress. While France.tv offers fiction Under pressurethis is another Netflix series that some presented as similar to Adolescence : Bad Boy. But it is ultimately nothing. If like theAdolescencethe main character is a teenager arrested by the police, the resemblance stops there. Real cardboard in Israel, where the series has already been broadcast, Bad Boy is now a name on Netflix by ranking on the fifth step of the top of the most watched series of the moment on the streaming platform. But this series, which is not to be put before the most sensitive eyes, drawn from a true story?
Bad Boy : From what true story is the new Netflix series drawn?
In the Netflix series, we follow the young Dean Scheinman, camped by Guy Manster. The young boy was arrested at his home then quickly placed in a detention center for minors after his criminal record that was too supplied and his numerous recurrences left other choice for the judge to incarcerate him. The main problem is that he is then placed in the prison for minors with the most violent reputation. In parallel, we discover the character of Daniel Chen, who is none other than Dean who became an adult and who has changed his name in order to line up and become a humorist in the stand up. The scenario is almost word for word the story of the real Dean Scheinman/Daniel Chen, truly incarcerated for years when he was a teenager. Daniel Chen actually became a humorist, as in the series, after having escaped the infernal cycle of the recurrence.
CHAPTER BOY : the improbable way that the series was born
If Daniel Chen participated in writing the series and also plays his own adult role, the series was created by the showrunner Ron Leshem. In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Ron Leshem explains that he imagined this series thanks to Daniel Chen himself. He met him while the latter was still in prison, and Ron Leshem was a journalist in immersion for two weeks in his penitentiary center. It was then that Ron Leshem immediately visualized a series: “When I presented Euphoria for the first time, the original concept was the voice of a 17 -year -old detainee.“Yes, you read that the series Euphoria is at the origin an idea of Ron Leshem, which he thus pitched to producers. But the producers received the idea differently and therefore gave birth to the series Euphoria, Finally broadcast in Israel in 2012 and whose American fiction with Zendaya was adapted. It was not until 15 years after this first pitch that Ron Leshem resumed contact with Daniel Chen, meanwhile become a famous Stand Up actor, to imagine Bad Boy Like the dramatic series that it is today.
