In 2021 after Jesus Christ, the gratin of French cinema met on the set of the new
Asterix and Obelix
directed by Guillaume Canet.
It should start in the next few days.
To announce the colossal casting, everyone simultaneously posted on Instagram as a story, the character embodied.
The cast of d '
Astérix et Obélix: L'Empire du Milieu
is made up of popular names, reminiscent, for better or for worse, of the adventures of the Gaul at the Olympic Games in 2010.
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As announced a few months ago,
Guillaume Canet
and
Gilles Lellouche
will fit well into the gaiters of Asterix and Obelix.
Among the diehards, we will also find
Jérôme Commandeur
in Abraracourcix,
Pierre Richard
in Panoramix,
Philippe Katerine
in Assurancetourix,
Audrey Lamy
in Bonemine, Chicandier in Ordralphabétix and the singer
Angèle
in Falbala.
Other Gauls should be added to the merry band, the rapper and actor
Orelsan will
play a man called Titanix,
Mathieu Chedid
will be Remix and
José Garcia
- who played the infamous Couverdepus in
Asterix at the Olympic Games
- will play a certain Biopix.
In the Roman camp, celebrities are not left out.
And it is
Vincent Cassel
who will lead the empire of the antagonists in the guise of Caesar.
Among his underlings we will find the youtubers
McFly and Carlito
in Radius and Cubitus,
Vincent Desaganat
in Perfidus, the actor and humorist
Monsieur Fraize
in Plexus,
Thomas VDB
in Sinus and the footballer
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
in Antivirus.
Also present on the project,
Marion Cotillard
will lend her nose to Cleopatra, while
Jonathan Cohen
will play the mysterious Graindemaïs, certainly in a duet with
Ramzy Bédia
who will play Epidemaïs.
Manu Payet
will play the mysterious Ri Qi Qi,
Laura Felpin Carioca
and
Issa Doumbia
the well-known lookout of the Baba pirates.
We do not yet know much about the plot of the film.
Interviewed by
Variety
in January 2020
,
producer Alain Attal had only unveiled the main lines of the original screenplay written by Philippe Mechelen, Julien Hervé and Guillaume Canet.
While fleeing a malicious prince, the only daughter of Emperor Han Xuandi finds herself in Gaul to ask for help from the die-hards.
Co-produced with China,
Asterix and Obelix: The Middle Empire
should not be released in theaters before 2022.