2017. On the former air base 217 near Brétigny-sur-Orge in Essonne, cobbled streets of the Paris of 1810 rise from the ground.
On these backlots, permanent outdoor sets, Vincent Cassel shoots
L'Empereur de Paris
.
Jean Dujardin will survey them a few months later for
J'accuse
by Roman Polanski.
Romain Duris succeeds them for
Eiffel
.
The experience is conclusive and the local elected officials are delighted.
For his part, Thierry de Segonzac, the boss of TSF - one of the French heavyweights in the rental of equipment for filming - is convinced that it is here that we must build a French-style Cinecittà.
The site is huge, there is no noise and the directors will benefit from an unobstructed 180 degree view.
There remains a pitfall: the community and the contractor are unable to agree on the price, the scope and the ecological commitments for such a project.
In 2021, TSF is ousted.
Guillaume Canet has just enough time to complete the filming of
Asterix and Obelix
- The Empire of…
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