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Paris Match (French), Jan 17, 1999
"Asterix: The Premiere Photos"
Copyright 1999 Paris Match Magazine, Paris
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Note: This article was translated from the French with the aid of a machine translator. I regret any awkwardness or errors! Ginny
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Depardieu with Christian Clavier on the cover (click for close-up)
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Asterix & Obélix:
They are mad these Gallics!
This film is the most expensive in the history of France: 280 million francs, the biggest set in Europe, a legion of technicians and a cohort of stars.
Four decades and 30 comic books after their first appearance in the Pilot "Weekly", Astérix and Obélix burst into film. Claude Lelouch had been tempted by the venture about thirty years ago, then Louis de Funès. They had both withdrawn in the face of the excessiveness of the project. Claude Berri, producer, and Claude Zidi, director, rose to the challenge. Clavier and Depardieu, the most popular stars in France, lend their faces to the heroes of "Astérix & Obélix Against Caesar", which comes out on the 3rd of February [1999].
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**Click for close-up
"I wanted for a long time to see Clavier and Depardieu interpreting the heroes whom I have imagined with my script writer René Goscinny, says comic artist Albert Uderzo. They are perfect, I could not dream of anyone better !" (photo by Richard Melloul).
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