What if 1001 stole the show from 117?
This is in any case what suggests a new unpublished extract from
OSS 117: Red Alert in Black Africa
, which Gaumont has just broadcast.
OSS 1001, the young agent played by Pierre Niney will overshadow his elder OSS 117. At first impressed and
“sweaty hands”
when he met 117, 1001 will then gain confidence, until he becomes a rival , both during their mission and during the game of seduction.
"He reminds me of you, thirty years ago,"
confides his hierarchical superior to an exasperated OSS 117.
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The rivalry between these two agents will be at the heart of
OSS 117: Red Alert in Black Africa
, the release of which, many times postponed, has finally been set for August 4. The synopsis of this third installment, in theaters on August 4, states:
“1981. Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, aka OSS 117, is back. For this new mission, more delicate, more perilous and more torrid than ever, he is forced to team up with a young colleague, the promising OSS 1001. "
Nicolas Bedos specifies that OSS 117 wants to become the "
savior of Françafrique, that he went to save a regime, to help a president to gain the upper hand over the rebels, that it is a bad fight, and that he will lose it. ”
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Africa, the end of colonialism, shenanigans, racism, politics ... These will be the themes evoked in the third adventure of the James Bond franchouillard.
Schoolboy humor and thirty-sixth degree are therefore present in this first film without Michel Hazanavicius.
The latter had refused to participate in the project, estimating in private, according to
Le Point
, that the script written by his friend Jean-François Halin did not please him.