Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah | |
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Born | Adil El Arbi June 30, 1988 Edegem, Belgium Bilall Fallah January 4, 1986 Vilvoorde, Belgium |
Alma mater | LUCA School of Arts, Brussels |
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Years active | 2010–present |
Adil El Arbi (born June 30, 1988) and Bilall Fallah (born January 4, 1986) are Belgian film and television directors of Moroccan descent. The duo, collectively billed as Adil & Bilall, are known for writing and directing the feature films Image (2014), Black (2015), and Gangsta (2018), as well as directing Bad Boys for Life (2020) and the upcoming Bad Boys: Ride or Die (2024), the third and fourth installments of the Bad Boys franchise starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. [1] [2]
Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah met during their film studies at the Hogeschool voor Wetenschap en Kunsten in Schaerbeek, Brussels, Belgium. During their studies, the first project that they directed was a short film named Broeders (2011), which was appreciated by critics; their later films, Black (2015) and Patser (2018), also received positive reception. [3] They directed the first two episodes in the TV series Snowfall , which aired on July 5 and 12 in 2017, as well as Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike's music video "When I Grow Up", which features American rapper Wiz Khalifa. [4] Besides directing Bad Boys for Life , the duo were also attached to direct Beverly Hills Cop IV , the fourth installment of the Beverly Hills Cop film series, in which Eddie Murphy is set to reprise his role. [5] [6] In February 2017, Bilall Fallah and Adil El Arbi were attached to direct the pilot episode of the WGN America series Scalped , [7] which filmed in New Mexico in early April, [8] but in November, after WGN saw it, they decided to pass on the series. [9] The duo also directed and executive produced Ms. Marvel for Disney+. [10] In May 2021, it was announced that the duo would direct a film based on Batgirl for HBO Max. [11] In April 2022, it was announced that the duo will no longer direct Beverly Hills Cop IV. [12] In August 2022, after Warner Bros. Discovery made the decision to write the film off for tax purposes, it was announced that the movie Batgirl would not be released. With a reported $90 million budget, Batgirl is one of the highest budget movies in history to be produced, but not released. [13] By February 2023, the duo signed on to direct Bad Boys: Ride or Die . [14]
Short film
Year | Title | Directors | Writers | Editors |
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2011 | Broeders | Yes | Adil El Arbi | No |
2016 | Patient Zero | No | No | Bilall Fallah |
2017 | Hashtag | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Feature film
Year | Title | Directors | Writers | Editors | Notes |
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2014 | Image | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
2015 | Black | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
2018 | Gangsta | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
2020 | Bad Boys for Life | Yes | No | No | |
2022 | Rebel | Yes | Yes | No | |
2024 | Bad Boys: Ride or Die | Yes | No | No | Post-production |
Canceled | Batgirl | Yes | No | No | Unreleased |
Television
Year | Title | Directors | Writers | Executive Producers | Notes |
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2012 | Bergica | Yes | Yes | No | |
2017 | Snowfall | Yes | No | No | 2 episodes |
2021 | Soil | Yes | No | No | 2 episodes |
2022 | Ms. Marvel | Yes | No | Yes | 2 episodes |
Canceled | Scalped | Yes | No | No | 1 episode Unreleased |
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Batgirl is an unreleased American superhero film based on the DC character Barbara Gordon / Batgirl. Produced by Burr! Productions and DC Films for the streaming service HBO Max, it was intended to be an installment in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU). The film was directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah from a screenplay by Christina Hodson, and starred Leslie Grace as Batgirl, alongside J. K. Simmons, Jacob Scipio, Brendan Fraser, Michael Keaton, and Ivory Aquino.
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Gangsta is a 2018 Belgian crime film co-edited, co-written and directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah. Main roles are played by Matteo Simoni, Nora Gharib, Saïd Boumazoughe, Gene Bervoets and Axel Daeseleire.
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