List of Asterix films
Appearance
This is a list of Asterix films.
Films
Title | Animated Films | |||||||||
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Asterix the Gaul (1967) |
Asterix and Cleopatra (1968) |
The Twelve Tasks of Asterix (1976) |
Asterix Versus Caesar (1985) |
Asterix in Britain (1986) |
Asterix and the Big Fight (1989) |
Asterix Conquers America (1994) |
Asterix and the Vikings (2006) |
Asterix: The Mansions of the Gods (2014) |
Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion (2018) | |
Director | Ray Goossens | René Goscinny Albert Uderzo US English: Lee Payant |
René Goscinny Albert Uderzo Pierre Watrin Henri Gruel |
Gaëtan Brizzi Paul Brizzi |
Pino Van Lamsweerde | Philippe Grimond US English: David N. Weiss |
Gerhard Hahn | Stefan Fjeldmark Jesper Møller |
Alexandre Astier Louis Clichy | |
Producer | Georges Dargaud | Raymond Leblanc | Georges Dargaud René Goscinny Albert Uderzo |
Yannik Piel | Philippe Grimond Yannik Piel |
Yannick Piel US English: Helene Blitz |
Gerhard Hahn and Jürgen Wohlrabe | Thomas Valentin | Philippe Bony Thomas Valentin |
Philippe Bony |
Writer | René Goscinny Albert Uderzo Willy Lateste Jos Marissen László Molnár (screenplay by) |
Eddie Lateste Jos Marissen Pierre Tchernia adapted from René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo |
Pierre Tchernia adapted from René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo |
Pierre Tchernia adapted from René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo |
Pierre Tchernia adapted from René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo |
Adolf Kabatek and Yannik Voight adapted from René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo US English: David N. Weiss |
Thomas Platt and Rhett Rooster adapted from René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo |
Stefan Fjeldmark Jean-Luc Goossens |
Alexandre Astier adapted from René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo |
Alexandre Astier |
Narrator | Tony Jay (US English) | Harald Juhnke (German) John Rye (English) |
Jeff Bennett (US English) | |||||||
Cinematography | Francois Léonard Georges Lapeyronnie Étienne Schürmann |
Georges Lapeyronnie Francois Léonard Jean Midre |
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Composer | Gérard Calvi | Vladimir Cosma | Michel Colombier | Harold Faltermeyer | Alexandre Azaria | Philippe Rombi | ||||
Editor | Francois Ceppi Jacques Marchel Laszlo Molnar |
Jacques Marchel Laszlo Molnar |
René Chaussy Isabel García de Herreros Minouche Gauzins Michèle Neny |
Monique Isnardon Robert Isnardon |
Monique Isnardon Robert Isnardon |
Jean Gaudier | Ulrich Steinworth Ringo Waldenburger |
Martin Wichmann Andersen Anders Hoffmann |
Soline Guyonneau | |
Production Companies | Dargaud Films | Dargaud Films Les Productions René Goscinny Studios Idefix Halas and Batchelor Cartoon Films |
Belvision Grid Animation M6 Films |
M6 Films | ||||||
Distributor | Cinema International Corporation (1976, UK) | Gaumont | 20th Century Fox | SND Films | ||||||
Released (France) | 20 December 1967 | 19 December 1968 | 20 October 1976 | 11 December 1985 | 3 December 1986 | 4 October 1989 | 5 April 1995 | 12 April 2006 | 26 November 2014 | 5 December 2018 |
Runtime | 68 minutes | 72 minutes | 82 minutes | 79 minutes | 79 minutes | 81 minutes | 85 minutes | 79 minutes | 85 minutes | 87 minutes |
Animation
- 1967 – Asterix the Gaul (Astérix le Gaulois) with Roger Carel as Asterix and Jacques Morel as Obelix
- 1968 – Asterix and Cleopatra (Astérix et Cléopâtre) with Roger Carel as Asterix and Jacques Morel as Obelix
- 1976 – The Twelve Tasks of Asterix (Les Douze travaux d'Astérix) with Roger Carel as Asterix and Jacques Morel as Obelix
- 1985 – Asterix Versus Caesar (Astérix et la surprise de César) with Roger Carel as Asterix and Pierre Tornade as Obelix
- 1986 – Asterix in Britain (Astérix chez les Bretons) with Roger Carel as Asterix and Pierre Tornade as Obelix
- 1989 – Asterix and the Big Fight (Astérix et le coup du menhir) (book of the film: Operation Getafix) with Roger Carel as Asterix and Pierre Tornade as Obelix
- 1994 – Asterix Conquers America (Astérix et les Indiens — produced in Germany as Asterix in Amerika) with Roger Carel as Asterix and Pierre Tornade as Obelix
- 2006 – Asterix and the Vikings (Astérix et les Vikings) with Roger Carel as Asterix and Jacques Frantz as Obelix
- 2014 – Asterix: The Mansions of the Gods (Astérix: Le Domaine des Dieux) with Roger Carel as Asterix and Guillaume Briat as Obelix
- 2018 – Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion (Astérix: Le Secret de la potion magique) with Christian Clavier as Asterix[1]
Live–action
- 1967 – Two Romans in Gaul ("Deux Romains en Gaule") - a television film combining live action and animation; black & white and one hour long. Long considered unavailable, it was released on DVD in 2012.
- 1999 – Asterix and Obelix Take on Caesar (Astérix et Obélix contre César)
- 2002 – Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (Astérix et Obélix : Mission Cléopâtre)
- 2008 – Asterix at the Olympic Games (Astérix aux Jeux Olympiques)
- 2012 – Asterix and Obelix: God Save Britannia (Astérix et Obélix : Au service de sa Majesté)
- forthcoming – Asterix and Obelix: The Silk Road (Astérix et Obélix : l'Empire du milieu)[2]
Unrealized projects
- 1967 – Asterix and the Golden Sickle - Animated.
- 1973 – The Dogmatix Movie - Animated.
- 2004 – Asterix and Obelix in Spain - Live action.
Notes
- No novelizations were made for Asterix the Gaul, Asterix in Britain or Asterix and Cleopatra which followed the original albums relatively closely.
- In 1967, there was an attempt to make an animated film based on Asterix and the Golden Sickle, which wasn't completed. The incomplete script and drawings were sold in a book-exhibition in Brussels and is today a part of the book The Mirror World of Asterix. Another reason for its failure is that Goscinny and Uderzo rejected the artists from releasing this movie because of its low quality drawings.
- The Twelve Tasks of Asterix is the only animated movie not based (at least loosely) on any of the comic books until the 2018 film The Secret of the Magic Potion. It may not be mentioned in the book, but is adapted from Asterix Conquers Rome.
- Starting from 1985's Asterix Versus Caesar the animation quality improved dramatically.
- Asterix Conquers America was the only one produced solely outside France.
- Early English dubbed versions of cartoon movies used character names from the Ranger/Look and Learn "Asterix the Briton" translations, such as Tunabrix for the village chieftain.
- Asterix Conquers America, Asterix & the Vikings and Asterix: The Mansions of the Gods are digitally drawn and animated.
- Asterix: The Mansions of the Gods is the first Asterix movie in stereoscopy 3D.
- The animated Asterix movies that were dubbed into English were all dubbed in the United Kingdom, until the release of Asterix and the Vikings, where it was then dubbed in the United States, in order to bring Asterix into the U.S. market. A North American Dub of Asterix and the Big Fight is used in all DVD releases, but fans generally consider it inferior to the original British dub, which is only available on VHS.
See also
References
- ^ Langlois, Caroline (1 June 2018). "Astérix - Le Secret de la potion magique : une affiche officielle pour la suite du Domaine des Dieux". AlloCiné. Retrieved 14 July 2018.
- ^ Goodfellow, Melanie (28 October 2019). "Guillaume Canet to direct live-action feature 'Asterix & Obelix, The Silk Road'". screendaily.com. Retrieved 7 January 2020.