Lellouche, Lindon, Scamarcio join 'Informant'

PARIS -- Gilles Lellouche ("Point Blank"), Vincent Lindon ("Anything on herInch) and Riccardo Scamarcio ("Romanzo Criminale") have grew to become part of the cast of crime thriller "The Informant" (L'Aviseur), composed by Abdel Raouf Dafri ("A Prophet"). Julien Leclercq, who formerly helmed "The Assault," is pointing the 18.9 million ($25 million) pic, which is founded on French undercover agent Marc Fievet's autobiographical book "Dans la peau d'un narco: Infiltre au coeur p la mafia" (a href="http://internet.selection.orgOrpostOrVR1118015361" target="_new">Variety, Feb. 13, 2010/a>). "'The Informant' might be the storyline from the regular guy who'll get in to a mean game -- the border patrols' cruel war against Gibraltar's drug-runners -- lacking the knowledge of the cardinal rule: Just like poker, in the event you spend some time in a table and you also can't tell who the sucker is, what this means is it's you," mentioned Dafri. Fievet spent more than ten years jail time we now have spent becoming an informant for your French border patrol, which introduced for the taking apart of key drug rings. "It's a performance-driven film inside the vein of classic crime movies like 'Donnie Brasco' and Michael Mann's films," mentioned producer Dimitri Rassam at Chapter 2. A French-The the spanish language language-Canadian co-production, "The Informant" will lense in Gibraltar, Montreal and Tangier, Morocco mole. Gaul's Studio 37 is co-creating with Canadian shingle Transfilm and Spain's Iberrota Films. Rassam mentioned Chapter 2 reaches discussions getting a French company that will handle distribution in France and worldwide sales. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com