“You had to have won a César, made more than 2 million entries, I think, or 3 million entries, to have made a film in English,” for Guillaume Canet, to become the most anticipated director of one of the films of the year, Asterix and Obelix: The Middle KingdomIt was not easy, as he explains in the Pierre Lescure program, nice gesture.
Producer Yohan Baiada obtained the rights to this story, explains Guillaume Canet, “he developed this project in 20-30 pages with Hachette, and they won the contest for all projects”.
“And there was a casting of directors, once they took me, once they didn’t take me,” he recalls.
However, to participate in this “casting” of directors, it was necessary to meet certain criteria, which greatly restricted the number of eligible filmmakers.
“He Killed the Game”
“The fact of absolutely wanting to put Asterix and Obelix back at the center of the story, who really are the main characters of the film,” allowed him, according to him, to win the project. It wasn’t easy going after Depardieu, because he killed the game, but I wanted Obelix to have material to play with to stick with the comic book character and to be able to embody this character and to ‘believe in him.’
Asterix and Obelix: The Middle Kingdom It is the first film not taken from one of the adventure albums of the two Gauls. The public will discover Guillaume Canet’s film on Wednesday, February 1.
During the Parisian preview in the presence of the actors, the filmmaker told himself “very excited to see all the cast together, and at the same time very stressed because it is becoming extremely concrete.”
Source: BFM TV
