The Asterix
comic book series
will have a new screenwriter for its 40th album.
This is Fabcaro, whose gift for the absurd made the success, announced Tuesday the publisher of the famous Gaul.
This album numbered 40 is planned, as is the tradition every odd year, in the fall, precisely on October 26, said Albert René editions in a press release.
The title is kept secret at this stage, and the designer remains Didier Conrad, whom Albert Uderzo had designated as successor from the 35th album in 2013.
A character from the imagination of Uderzo and screenwriter René Goscinny in 1959, Asterix is a guaranteed best-seller.
The latest album,
Asterix and the Griffin
in 2021, sold more than 1.5 million copies that year, in just over two months.
Fabcaro (Fabrice Caro in civil status), 49, comic book author and novelist, is only the fourth screenwriter of the adventures of the irreducible Gaul, after Goscinny, Uderzo and Jean-Yves Ferri.
He is known for his satires of our society.
His great success,
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in 2015, told the flight of a man taken to task for having forgotten his loyalty card at a store.
“
I was a big fan of Asterix.
It's a great gift for the kid that I
was, he told AFP.
I want to stay true to the specifications - even if the word is not very pretty - or in any case to what makes Asterix so charming.
With classic ingredients, such as anachronisms, puns or others.
And above all, stay true to the characters
.
The other event of 2023 for Asterix will be the release on February 1 of the film
L'Empire du milieu
, directed by Guillaume Canet.