After Black (2015) had caught the eye of Hollywood, directors Bilall Fallah and Adil El Arbi were approached to replace Joe Carnahan as directors of Mauvais garçons pour la vie (2020). Since no definite promises were made and they were doubtful that Bad Boys For Life would ever be greenlit, they decided to make this movie, which cemented their reputation as action directors.
Feature film debut of Dutch artist/comedian Ali B. (artist name of Ali Bouali), who had previously done some voice-over work in his native Netherlands. Bouali can also be heard singing several songs on the soundtrack.
The film 'patser' is primarily filmed in Antwerp (Belgium), and Adil El Arbi en Bilall Fallah have a good reason for it because Antwerp is the biggest cocaine city of Europe".
After IMAGE and BLACK, is PATSER the third film of Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah.