Platinum blonde hair, almond eyes, legs to die for a saint and a very tight-fitting flight attendant costume: she's a sexy bombshell that will soon hit the screens.
Natacha, a comic book icon as beautiful as she is intelligent, born in the pages of Spirou in 1970 but still published, will continue her adventures in the cinema.
The series designed by François Walthéry - 3.2 million copies sold and translations into six languages - is being adapted, announced TF1 Studio, Daïdaï Films and Dupuis editions.
At the moment, the film is in pre-production and the writing of the script has just started.
It was entrusted to Laurent Turner, in the pen of “Radin!
"With Dany Boon, from" the Odyssey ", on Commander Cousteau, and who had already touched the world of comics with the adaptation of" Petit Spirou ".
In the production, the choice fell on Noémie Saglio, first known for her hidden camera "Bitch" on Canal +, then for her version at the cinema "Bitch, princess of hearts", more recently for "Like mother, such girl ".
For the cast, at this stage, nothing seems complete or, at least, communicable.
Sexy and feminist
The story, "a police comedy", will not be the adaptation of an album but of the universe of Natacha and her blundering colleague, the steward Walter.
The action will take place in the 1970s. "But with subjects and concerns of our time," warns Vanessa Djian, director of Daïdaï Films.
For me, Natacha is
The Revenge of a Blonde
.
She shows that you can be sexy and feminist, wear high heels and be smarter, stronger than men.
There are few great figures like this in the cinema.
I've been dreaming of being able to adapt it for years.
And Noémie Saglio also adores the character.
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Proposals for Natacha, Dupuis confirms having had a lot.
“There were often options asked but they had all failed, for budget or availability problems ... He is a very beautiful character who is not a vase.
For me, this is the first woman released.
She shoots a pistol, finds herself lost in the jungle or the prisoner of a maharaja, without losing any of her femininity.
And, if the designer has always been the same since the creation, many screenwriters have followed one another.
It has a timeless side but has evolved, ”says Laurent Duvault, director of audiovisual development at Médiation (Dupuis, Dargaud, Le Lombard, etc.).
When will Natacha land on the screens?
Difficult, in these times of crisis, to make predictions.
But the "normal" period is between two and three years.
It should, in any case, find itself in theaters in the company of other heroes of the 9th art, so much BD and cinema have for a few years tightened the links.
At Mediation, there are no less than 60 series on which options are posed.
Among the latest projects announced: the shooting this summer of a “Ducobu” 4, still by and with Elie Semoun, and the sequel to “Vieux Fourneaux”, currently being written.