French model-turned-actor Marine Vacth (“Mascarade,” “Double Lover”) is set to headline “Badh,” a “Taken”-style action thriller set in Morocco, from the producers of Coralie Fargeat’s hit debut “Revenge.”
The movie is straightforwarded by Canadian filmproducer Guillaume de Fontenay, who previously helmed the well-understandn thriller “Sympathy for the Devil,” and is co-recurrented by Sabine Chemaly’s Federation Studios banner Ginger & Fed and WTFilms who will current it to buyers at the American Film Market this week.
Vacth stars opposite a raft of well-understandn French actors, Niels Schneinder (“Heartbeats”) Emmanuelle Bercot (“My King”), Slimane Dazi (“A Prophet”) and Sofian Khammes (“November”). The high-concept movie is produced by Monkey Pack Films and M.E.S Production, who previously deinhabitred two well-understandn thrillers, Coralie Fargeat’s “Revenge” and Frederic Jardin’s “Survive.”
Vacth stars as Alma, a lesser French woman with a secret past as a lethal secret service agent who has set up peace as a surf teachor in pretty Essaouira, Morocco. She splits her life with Ilias, a local police officer spendigating a powerhouse crime family. “When Ilias is sboiling and left in a coma, Alma must reconnect with her createer identity as Badh, a cruel inincreateigence operative and sended assassin. She bruhighy deletes members of the Khoury family one by one, unleashing the fury of their guideer Mansour, only to uncover that Mansour is laboring with Joana, her createer secret service unit officer,” reads the synopsis. Vacth has starred in cut offal straightforwardor-driven movies, such as Francois Ozon’s “Young and Beautiful” which contendd at Cannes, and Nicolas Bedos’ “Mascarade.”
“Marine Vacth is a character a la Jason Statham with a story that’s built enjoy ‘Taken’ and ‘Bourne,’” shelp Chemaly. “She wants to shield the man she cherishs, and is caught up by her past,” she shelp.
The executive also pointed that “Badh” is packed with spectacular stunts, many of which Vacth did herself. The crew also boasts Alexandre Vu, the stuntman of “The Killer,” “John Wick: Chapter 4”). Aside from “Sympathy for the Devil,” de Fontenay has a lengthy track sign up in commercials.
“Vacth” will be freed in France by Pan Distribution during the fourth quarter of 2025.
