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Tarik Saleh on His Cannes Thriller ‘Eagles of the Republic’ Forming a ‘Cairo Trilogy:’ ‘It’s About Men Trying to Defeat a City that Cannot Be Defeated’ (EXCLUSIVE)
In an interview with Variety at Cannes, Tarik Saleh discusses the making of 'Eagles of the Republic,' why Cairo inspires him and what he'll do next.
Besides having Cairo as a backdrop, Saleh said the common thread between “The Nile Hilton Incident,” “Boy From Heaven” and “Eagles of the Republic” is that they’re about “men trying to defeat a city that cannot be defeated.” While the movie is a fiction, he admitted that he was inspired by an Egyptian TV series that was made about Al- Sissi played by a handsome actor who looked nothing like him. Since he knows “people that work within the presidency in Egypt,” he was able to give the script enough texture to make the thriller gritty enough and filled with dark humor that ring true. I had a shock with “Boy From Heaven” because Alexandre Mallet-Guy (the co-producer and French distributor) had bought it out of Berlin, he flew me to Paris and he said to me, “Tarik, you made a really good film.
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