46 years after Pierre Richard, Jamel Debbouze is The New Toy

Between the two, Richard Pryor played in a remake of Richard Donner (Lethal Weapon) entitled The Toy, and translated Le Joujou into French, so as not to confuse it too much with the original comedy by Francis Veber.

Sami lives happily in a suburban town, between his friends, neighbors and his wife Alice. For his son's birthday, the richest man in France opens the department store he owns. Alexandre chooses Sami, the night watchman, as his new toy…

46 years later Peter Richard In The Toy, Jamel Debbouze played the hero of New toyat the end of 2022 in cinemas. The concept is the same: he plays an unemployed man who one day comes across the son of a rich businessman in a store (Daniel Auteuil replaces Michel Bouquet), who decides to take him as a toy. Those around him try to explain to him that a person cannot be considered that way, but he insists, and it will change their lives for both of them.

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M6 will broadcast this family comedy for the first time in the clear, this Friday evening. In addition to the actors mentioned above, Alice Belaïdi, Anna Cervinka and Salim Kissari Aton are also in the cast. Note that this is Jamel's first role in the cinema since Alad'2on screens four years ago. It has since been seen again in Honorary citizenby Mohammed Hamidi, also in 2022, and he will return soon In The Marsupilami by Philippe Lacheau.

Between The Toy with Pierre Richard and The New Toy with Jamel Debbouze, did you know that Richard Pryor had also played this same character in the cinema? It was in 1982 in The Toy/Le Joujoudirected by Richard Donner (Superman, The Goonies, Lethal Weapon…), which received a terrible critical reception, but which did well at the American box office with nearly $50 million in revenue.

The New Toy was generally well received, without achieving the popularity of the original film, seen by 1.2 million curious people in France in 1976, and regularly rebroadcast with success on television since. The new version still intrigued nearly a million curious people at the end of 2022. Will it attract plenty of viewers this evening?

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