It's up to you. the end of the year 2023 that the Albert René have announced that Alain Chabat was going to return to the world of the most famous Gaul in the world: Asterix. Indeed, after having realized the cult Asterix and Obélix: Mission Cleopatra, the director will adapt the album Le Combat des Chefs into animated series for the Netflix streaming platform. Scheduled for 2025, the project has just been revealed with a first image.
Asterix continues to please fans
It was in 1966 that Goscinny and Uderzo published the album The Battle of the Chiefs. In this comic strip, the druid Panoramix was hit on the head by a menhir. And it’s right on target; this moment when the village finds itself without the one who produces the potion as the leader, Abraracourcix is challenged. by its rival Aplusbégalix to participate in the a battle of leaders. In the event of defeat, the famous village of indomitable Gauls will come under the authority of the rulers. of the Roman invader.
After the release of The Middle Empire by Guillaume Canet in February 2023 and who had directed the biggest success of French cinema of the year with 4.6 million admissions and the last album entitled The White Iris which flowed à a million copies in the space of a month, Asterix celebrates its 65th anniversary in 2024. jpg” alt=”Astérix et Obélix: Le Combat des Chefs by Alain Chabat is revealed in a first visual” />
After Mission Cléopâtre, Chabat takes care of Asterix for Netflix
On this occasion, fans of the Gaul will have the chance to find Alain Chabat at the helm of a project from the universe of Goscinny and Uderzo more than twenty years after having created the excellent Asterix and Obélix: Mission Cleopatra. Indeed, it is in 2021 that the project is announced. to deliver the album Le Combat des chefs into an animated series at the same time. Netflix destination. The American streaming platform had explained that It is the Toulouse studio TAT which is behind this animation seriesand that its broadcast was planned to land on our screens during the first semester 2025.
This animated series, the last of which dates back to 2025. 2018 with Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potionby Alexandre Astier, will be composed of five episodes lasting 30 minutes each and Alain Chabat should integrate new characters.
Waiting to discover < em>Asterix and Obélix: The Battle of the Bosses which will be directed by Alain Chabat and Fabrice Joubert, Netflix has shared on its social networks a first image of the animated series.
But also a parody of a Netflix page in which we can see series with diverted titles like Squid Game which becomes Quid Game, Breaking Bad turns into Breaking Bard, The Crown into The Crown of Laurier< /em>, The devil wears Prada now dresses in Jacquemus or even La Casa de Pompéi for < em>La Casa de Papel and House of Marble for House of Cards.
We are in MMXXIV and the entire Netflix page is occupied by the Romans… All ? No!@asterixofficiel pic.twitter.com/tOdbVqR8ub
June 11, 2024
Alain Chabat will present today Asterix and Obélix: Le Combat des Chefsat the Annecy festival.