Composer Guillaume Roussel (Black Beauty, 3 Days to Kill, The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan & Milady, The Spy, Marie Antoinette, Happy!) is reteaming with director Cédric Jimenez on the upcoming French dystopian thriller Dog 51 (Chien 51). The film starring Gilles Lellouche, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Louis Garrel, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Romain Duris & Artus is set in a near future, in which Paris is segregated into three zones which separate the social classes controlled by a predictive AI hat has revolutionized the police system. The movie follows an elite agent and a disillusioned cop who are forced to team up to lead the investigation when the AI’s creator is assassinated. Jiminez also cowrote the screenplay with Olivier Demangel (Atlantics, Father & Soldier) based on Laurent Gaudé’s 2022 novel. Hugo Selignac (Beating Hearts, Little White Lies) is producing the project for Chi-Fou-Mi. Roussel has previously Jimenez’s last four features, The Connection, The Man with the Iron Heart, The Stronghold and November. Dog 51 will be released in French theaters on October 15, 2025 by Studiocanal.
Roussel has also recently scored the Apple TV+ original series Carême, which premiered last month with new episodes currently dropping every Wednesday.
