Branagh, Artemis Fowl, between young Thor and The Godfather

(ANSA) - ROME, JUNE 06 - Eight novels released from 2001 to 2012, capable of selling over 21 million copies of the world in 44 languages ​​(in Italy publishes Mondadori). They are numbers of the global success of the fantasy saga Artemis Fowlcreata by the Irish Eoin Colfer. The protagonist is a brilliant 12-year-old genius belonging to a line of crime masters who confronts parallel magical worlds. Another Irishman, Kenneth Branagh ("we grow by listening to great stories like these, make us want to become storytellers") to sign the first homonymous film adaptation, in a $ 125 million unblockbuster.
    The main role is Ferdia Shaw, in a cast that includes, among others, Lara McDonnell, Tamara Smart, NonsoAnozie, Colin Farrell and Judi Dench. The film had a scheduled release in theaters on May 29, but given the pandemic, it will debut in the world directly on the Disney platform + on June 12. "I am happy that the film can go public," explains Branagh via the web. In the circumstances we live in, "I hope even more that it will offer a nice opportunity for fun and escape". The actor and filmmaker born in Belfast in 1960, is also among the interpreters of the highly anticipated new thrillerdistopico by Christopher Nolan, Tenet and we will see him as the protagonist and director of a new adventure of Hercule Poirot, in Assassination on the Nile. For him, the coronavirus is changing the film industry and the relationship with the public: "Comespettatore I want to return to theaters but I do not know how widespread it will be". We live "a new normal but will not think it is as abnormal as many fear".
    Coming to Artemis Fowl, Branagh, who hopes to develop the story in other chapters, starts with a story of origins: "It is the same challenge that I faced making Hor." The director makes Artemis "more 'normal':" He is like a privileged and brilliant little Lord, who lives a style of extraordinary vitastra. It is less cynical than it appears in the first books.
   In my mind he was like Michael Corleone at the beginning of IlPadrino. At the start he is not the type who kills or embezzles but in the end he certainly has become. Artemis also follows her own path ". (ANSA).