Lellouche, Lindon, Scamarcio join 'Informant'

PARIS -- Gilles Lellouche ("Point Blank"), Vincent Lindon ("Anything on herInch) and Riccardo Scamarcio ("Romanzo Criminale") have became a member 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 dependant on French undercover agent Marc Fievet's autobiographical book "Dans la peau d'un narco: Infiltre au coeur p la mafia" (a href="http://world wide web.variety.com/article/VR1118015361" target="_new">Variety, February. 13, 2010/a>). "'The Informant' may be the story of the regular guy who will get right into a mean game -- the border patrols' cruel war against Gibraltar's drug-runners -- not understanding the cardinal rule: As with poker, should you spend time at a table and also you can't tell who the sucker is, this means it's you," stated Dafri. Fievet spent greater than a decade imprisonment we have spent being an informant for that French border patrol, which brought towards the taking apart of key drug rings. "It is a performance-driven film within the vein of classic crime movies like 'Donnie Brasco' and Michael Mann's films," stated producer Dimitri Rassam at Chapter 2. A French-The spanish language-Canadian co-production, "The Informant" will lense in Gibraltar, Montreal and Tangier, The other agents. Gaul's Studio 37 is co-creating with Canadian shingle Transfilm and Spain's Iberrota Films. Rassam stated Chapter 2 is at discussions having a French company which will handle distribution in France and worldwide sales. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com