More than 20 years after his success with “Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra“, French director Alain Chabat has once more teamed up with the plucky Gauls for a 3D animated sequence that was introduced Sunday at a pageant in Lille earlier than it runs on Netflix.
The sequence relies on the 1961 comedian e-book “Asterix and the Big Fight”, the seventh within the sequence illustrated by Albert Uderzo and written by Rene Goscinny in regards to the pugnacious warrior Asterix and his menhir deliveryman sidekick Obelix.
There are 5 episodes of about 20 minutes every, with three being proven to an appreciative viewers on the pageant earlier than they go dwell on the streaming website April 30.
After a flashback to the heroes’ childhood the place viewers uncover how Obelix fell into the magic potion, the motion returns to 50 BC, the place the final unbiased village in Roman-occupied Gaul finds itself beneath siege.
The village druid Getafix has misplaced his thoughts, and the recipe for the potion, after Obelix unintentionally crushes him with a menhir. The Romans fire up hassle between rival Gaulish tribes, and Chief Vitalstatistix should defeat his counterpart from a Gallo-Roman village, Ceramix, or threat falling beneath Caesar’s yoke.
“I always liked ‘The Big Fight’ for the dynamic with the Gallo-Romans. Here, there are truly invaders, resistance fighters, and collaborators,” stated Chabat, who used his personal voice to dub Asterix.
Actor Gilles Lellouche is the voice of Obelix, whom he performed within the dwell motion film “Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom”, which bought 4.6 million tickets in 2023.
But Chabat’s 2002 Cleopatra film stays by far probably the most profitable adaptation of the Asterix comedian books, with shut to fifteen million entries in France, making it the eighth most profitable movie in France, and the fourth for a French manufacturing.
Some 400 million copies of Asterix books have been bought in 130 languages and dialects, and a forty first album is due in October.
Source: www.anews.com.tr