November 22, 2009
(France)- French filmmaker and producer Luc Besson (The Professional, La Femme Nikita, The Fifth Element, District B13) is moving fast on his new film "Les Aventures Extraodinaires d’Adèle Blanc-Sec" (The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec). The project is envisioned as a trilogy based on the long-running comic books by Jacques Tardi. A little bit Indiana Jones, a little bit Tintin and a little bit Hellboy, the leading lady, played by the statuesque Louise Bourgouin, is a reporter from the early 1900s who through the course of the books confronts mummies, monsters, dinos and mad scientists. According to the storyline: "The year is 1912. Adèle Blanc-Sec, an intrepid young reporter, will go to any lengths to achieve her aims, including sailing to Egypt to tackle mummies of all shapes and sizes. Meanwhile, in Paris, it’s panic stations! A 136 million-year old pterodactyl egg on a shelf in the natural history museum has mysteriously hatched, and the bird subjects the city to a reign of terror from the skies. But nothing fazes Adèle Blanc-Sec, whose adventures reveal many more extraordinary surprises."XXX
XXXLouise Bourgoin (Adèle) is a former Canal+ channel weather girl who now does a bit of painting and a bit of TV presenting between her big screen roles. Joining her in the cast are Gilles Lellouche as Inspector Caponi, Phillippe Nahon as Professor Menard, Jean-Paul Rouve as a fellow adventurer, and Mathieu Amalric as the villain. Besson again provides his own screenplay, with production already underway on the first film for a spring 2010 release, at least in France.
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XXXJacques Tardi is a French comic strip artist (born 1946) often credited solely as Tardi. He started writing comics in 1969, at the age of 23, in the comics magazine Pilote, initially illustrating short stories before creating the political fiction story "Rumeur sur le Rouergue" from a scenario by Pierre Christin in 1972. A highly versatile artist, Tardi successfully adapted novels by controversial writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline or crime novelist Léo Malet. In Malet's case, Tardi adapted his detective hero Nestor Burma into a series of critically acclaimed graphic novels, though he also wrote and drew original stories of his own. Tardi also created one of French comics' most famous heroines, Adèle Blanc-Sec. This series recreates the Paris of early 20th century where the moody heroine encounters supernatural events, state plots, occult societies and experiments in cryogenics. Another graphic novel was "Ici Même" which was written by Jean-Claude Forest, best known as the creator of Barbarella. Tardi's obsession with the First World War and the pitfalls of patriotism spawned several albums (Adieu Brindavoine, C'était la guerre des tranchées, Le trou d'obus...) and was brought on by his inability to come to terms with his grandfather's involvement in the day-to-day horrors of trench warfare. He also completed a four-volume series on the Paris Commune, "Le cri du peuple". His style can at times seem similar to Hergé's early ligne claire style (clear line), paired with meticulous research and typically featuring an asexual hero, but Tardi's work also satirizes the concept of the flawless hero by using a series of inept, naive or anti-heroic main characters. His audience is mainly the literary, French-speaking adult public. (from joblo.com, wikipedia.org, and filmshaft.com)
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