The star of “Of Rust and Bone” will play the rocker in a film entitled “That I Love You”, announced Friday in Cannes.
It will be directed by Jalil Lespert and will focus on the rocker’s meeting with his last wife Laeticia.
This is the first fiction project on the youth idol since his death in 2017.
Follow the full coverage
Cannes film festival
Sooner or later, Johnny Hallyday had to be entitled to his biopic. And it is Jalil Lespert who will tackle it in a film entitled That I love you. Produced by Cinéafrance Studios, it will be distributed by Universal Pictures International France which announced it this Friday on the sidelines of the 77th Cannes Film Festival, reports The French Film.
Instead of a classic biopic, the actor and director chose to focus on the life of the rocker starting from his meeting Laeticia, his last wife, in a nightclub in Miami in 1995. In a difficult period, too both artistically and personally at the time, the idol of young people will rise again alongside him.
But who will play Laeticia?
To interpret Johnny, Jalil Lespert chose the Belgian actor Matthias Schoenaerts, revealed to the general public here on the Croisette with Of rust and bone by Jacques Audiard. Since then, he has been one of the most in-demand actors on both sides of the Atlantic, with roles in the United States in Red Sparrow, Sons of Philadelphia or The Old Guard.
We do not yet know which actress will be responsible for playing Laeticia. Nor what will be his degree of involvement in this project which should cause a lot of ink to flow. After Johnny’s death in 2017, Jade and Joy’s mother lived a romance of almost three years with the filmmaker. They separated last summer.
-
Read also
Bob Marley, the Beatles, Amy Winehouse… Are singers the new box office superheroes?
Revealed in front of the camera with the César for best male hopeful by Laurent Cantet in 2001, Jalil Lespert notably directed the biopic Yves Saint Laurent with Pierre Niney or the series Versailles on Canal +. We also owe him the comedy Turkey with Dany Boon but also a documentary on DSK broadcast on Netflix.
