Dave and Steph have made the soundtrack for ‘Banger’, the debut film of So-Me that will stream on Netflix from April 2nd.
Earlier this year, in March, Netflix released the first picture of the movie.
Vincent Cassel plays an aging EDM DJ in the upcoming comedy thriller from French music video director So Me, aka Bertrand de Langeron. Artistic director of the Ed Banger label and known for his music videos for Justice, Kanye West, MGMT, and Kid Cudi, So Me is making his feature film debut with feature for Netflix.
Black Swan and Ocean’s Thirteen star Cassel plays Scorpex, a once-famous DJ now on the downside who gets a chance to return to the top when an agent from French intelligence agency DGSI (played by Golden Mustache actress Laura Felpin) recruits him to take down Vestax (French YouTuber Mister V), his young and fast-rising rival on the EDM scene.
The feature builds on a 2021 short work, titled “6 X Confiné.e.s,”, by So Me which first introduced Cassel in the role of Scorpex and drew on the filmmaker’s experience as art director at French electronic music record label Ed Banger Records.
Co-stars include Alexis Manenti, Déborah Lukumuena, Nina Zem, Nicolas Maury, Philippe Katerine, Kavinsky, Paul Mirabel, Panayotis Pascot, Manu Payet and Alice Moitié.
Iconoclast, the group behind Romain Gavras’s Netflix actioner Athena, are producing the feature. Principle photography began in Paris on February 26.
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