Originally intended for the cinema, the new film by the director of Camping was to feature the on-screen reunion of Christian Clavier and Josiane Balasko. The two emblematic actors of the Splendid troupe had not collaborated together since the Auberge Rouge, a comedy released in 2007 in the cinema. It is the director's passion for this land of traditions between France and Spain that pushed him to want to make a film there. " It's a bit of a dream come true, because I had long wanted to shoot in the Basque Country, which I fell in love with. I was waiting for the right script to shoot here, and I have it", he declared to the newspaper South West in 2019. " Initially, it was planned for the cinema, but it will eventually be shot for France Télévisions. Didier Bourdon will play a widowed father, butcher in the Basque Country, none of whose children want to take over. "
The film could not be assembled for the cinema, Onteniente did not want to abandon it and then proposed it to France 3, which led to an evolution in the casting according to the channel. Alongside Didier Bourdon who took over the role of Gabi, the patriarch of the Moreno family, it was Catherine Jacob who inherited the role initially intended for Balasko. With a small modification of the scenario however, since the latter was originally intended to play Gabi's wife, while Catherine Jacob plays Hortensia, Gabi's now widowed sister.