On Europe 1, the director evokes the third opus of OSS 117, entitled "Red Alert in Black Africa", and the filming begins this month.

INTERVIEW

This is a movie that OSS 117 fans are eagerly awaiting. The third installment of Hubert Builder's adventures in La Bath will see the light of day, ten years after OSS 117: Rio no longer responds . It is no longer Michel Hazanavicius who will be behind the camera, but Nicolas Bedos. OSS 117, he will always be incarnated by Jean Dujardin.

"The two previous OSS 117 are really beautiful movies"

Many thought that a sequel would never see the day, after the opus released in 2006 and 2009. But OSS 117: Red Alert in Black Africa will be released in theaters in February 2021. "There was a common desire of the actor the main producers and screenwriters, who thought that I could be sensitive to this humor and to this aesthetic ambition, "says Nicolas Bedos at the microphone of Europe 1, which points out that" the two previous OSS 117 are real beautiful movies ".

"We are at the end of the preparation"

We do not yet know the scenario of this new adventure of the French spy, only the fact that Hubert Builder of La Bath will be sent to Central Africa and Jean Dujardin and Pierre Niney are part of the cast. "They are happy to play together, we have already read," says Nicolas Bedos. "We are at the end of the preparation, the shooting begins in two weeks," he adds. And the filmmaker wants to make a promise to fans of the first two films: "It does not strangle ( in terms of humor, ed ), it would be a form of treason."