Good cop, bad cop pass (finally) on the small screen

Twenty years after its release on the big screen, Bon Cop, Bad Cop Pass on TV. While the two films had fun with the rivalry between French -speaking and English -speaking, the series will be interested in the “third loneliness”, By approaching indigenous reality. Patrick Huard is back, but not Colm Feore, who withdrew at the last minute. A blow for team members, who were able to get up quickly.

Transpose on television one of the most lucrative Canadian films in history will not have been a thin task, confirms Patrick Huard. “It is the case that will have asked me the most in my entire career,” recognizes the one who has been carrying this project at arm’s length from the start as an actor and producer. He also heads the team of authors.

Announced with great fanfare in 2023, the series Bon Cop, Bad Cop will have taken more time than expected to come true. The shooting finally started in June on the territory of the Gesgapegiag community in Gaspésie. The production then moved to the Quebec region, especially in Wendake. Passing last week in Montreal, where the team is currently running, Patrick Huard avoids expanding on the reasons which delayed the start of this series, which must land somewhere in 2026 on Crave.

He was the one who wanted to wear Bon Cop, Bad Cop On the small screen, rather than making it a third film. “I wanted to develop the characters, to add new ones. I also thought we had gone around the duality between the two main characters. I wanted to go elsewhere and the format of the series allowed more that, ”he explains.

Patrick Huard wanted this time that the plot takes place in an indigenous community. He says that this idea began germinating ten years ago. It was after talking about the rapper of Mi’gmaw Quentin Condo, a longtime friend of his wife Anik Jean, that he decided to move forward. Quentin Condo was also a scriptwriting consultant for production. The author of Origin Innu Michel Jean also participated in the writing of the series.

The new Martin Ward

We obviously find the two protagonists of the films, the David Bouchard interpreted by Patrick Huard and the sympathetic, but a little psychorigid, Martin Ward. The two police officers are again led to collaborate to elucidate the disappearance of a gang leader. An an indigenous police officer is transplanted to their investigation, torn between modernity and traditions, played by the young actor Joshua Odjick.

It was announced last fall that Colm Feore would resume his role as Martin Ward. “Due to schedule conflicts”, he had to be replaced two weeks before the start of filming by Toronto actor Henry Czerny, which we could see in Mission impossible.

“Yes, it’s a short time to slip into the shoes of a character. But it was not difficult, because Patrick was very clear in what he wanted, “says the actor who, unlike Colm Feore, does not speak French.

The co -producer Anik Jean specifies that the mustache actor, who does not look like Colm Feore, quickly found her ease on the set. The two game partners quickly established a good complicity, she observes.

“It has become a friend. He’s such a generous guy of his person. He brings another side to Martin Ward. It brought us elsewhere in style, and into the dynamics between the two characters. It was not planned, but it is really a good addition, “says Anik Jean, who also composes music, in addition to co -bore the series. Patrick Huard, Maryam Bouchard and Podz share the realization.

Action Comedy

Christine Beaulieu joins distribution, as well as Robin-Joël Cool and Antoine Vézina. The Drag Queens Rita Baga, Mona de Grenoble, Barbada, Bobépine and Bambi Dextrous will also be there. Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse plays David Bouchard’s daughter again, who is also a policewoman today. However, the heiress does not really share the values or the ways of making its father.

The favorite actress of Quebecers, who was 14 years old in the first film, says she is being honored to slip into the same role 20 years later. Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse, currently pregnant to the ears, is convinced that the public who liked the two films Bon Cop, Bad Copreleased in 2006 and 2017, will be found in the tone of the series.

“It’s really still an action comedy. It’s funny, funny, funny all the time. And at the same time, there are waterfalls, floats that explode, prosecution … In short, many things that we can see on Quebec TV, especially in our comedies. This is what makes Bon Cop, Bad Cop So unique as a project », summary with enthusiasm Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse.