Marie Gicquel, edited by Laura Laplaud 11:11 a.m., February 01, 2023
This is the event release at the cinema at the beginning of the year: "Asterix and Obelix: the Middle Empire".
A film directed by Guillaume Canet, with a colossal budget of 65 million euros, is not inspired by an album.
He sends our friends the Gauls to China to save a princess.
The scenario had to respect very precise specifications.
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Asterix returns to the big screen this Wednesday.
But this time it is the actor and director Guillaume Canet who is in charge.
In this film, the irreducible Gauls, whom we do not attack so easily, are always present.
We also find the characters of Uderzo, the writing of Goscinny, his anachronisms, his puns and his references to current events.
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"I had the support of the rights holders"
Guillaume Canet had to respect a very precise charter as he explains at the microphone of Europe 1. "I had the support of Hachette and the beneficiaries and of Sylvie Uderzo, the daughter of Albert, and of Anne Goscinny, the daughter of René Goscinny, who were extremely precise on the notes that could come out of the versions, stuck to a certain reality, to a certain topicality, but to remain specific to the DNA of these characters.
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A very tight script: little room for improvisation.
A plot in China already decided by the producers and the publisher Hachette.
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Pathé Films, which largely finances the ninth most expensive French feature film in history, hopes to attract at least six million Gauls to theaters.