Twenty-three years after the triumph of the film Cleopatra missionAlain Chabat falls back into the magic potion with the animation mini-series Asterix & Obélix: the fight of chefs. L’ex-Nuls
The irreducible Gauls are back! Since Wednesday, April 30, 2025, Astérix, Obelix, Idéfix, Panoramix and “Tutti Quantix” have stormed the Netflix streaming platform with the animated adaptation of the album The fight of the chiefs. A mini-series in 5 episodes imagined and co-breaded by Alain Chabat, the same one who is at the origin of the cult film Cleopatra missionwhich had gathered more than 14 million viewers in 2002 in 2002. And for his return to Armorica, the ex-member of the unforgettable draws cannot be missed: his adaptation is inventive, fun and, as moving. He in
Asterix & Obelix : What does the adaptation of the comic book Alain Chabat say?
“We are in 50 BC. The whole Gaul is occupied by the Romans … all? No! A village populated by irreducible Gauls resists again and always in the invader …” But this resistance, Julius Caesar (to which his voice Laurent Lafitte lends) may have finally found the solution to end it: a fight of the chiefs! In the Gallic tradition, when the chief of a tribe wants to become the leader of another, he defies the latter to a singular fight, the defeated must then submit with his tribe to the winner! To face Abraracoucix (Grégoire Ludig), the candidate is all found: Aplusbégalix (Grégory Gadebois), at the head of a Gallo-Roman village in the pay of César. What does Bonemine’s husband (Géraldine Nakache) do the Gaulish chief doped at the magic potion risk? Well everything! Since a menhir launched by Obelix (Gilles Lellouche) fell on him, Panoramix has lost the ball and, also, the recipe for the precious drink. Even Asterix (Alain Chabat) is helpless in the face of this situation! The village is more than ever in great danger …
Asterix & Obelix : Alain Chabat did not want to do the same as Cleopatra mission
After the huge success of Cleopatra mission In the cinema, Alain Chabat Was he afraid to return twenty years later to the universe created by the brilliant René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo? This is precisely the question that Télé-Loisirs posed to the actor and director who responded with sincerity, simplicity and without the slightest ounce of a vigilant: “I should say yes but, strangely, no!” An amused admission which is also explained by the approach taken by Chabat for this new adaptation of comics: “I wanted to try not to do the same [que Mission Cléopâtre, ndlr]. Adapter The fight of the chiefs In animation and not live, it was a good start. Just like developing it in series and not in film. And then this album is not based on a trip as with Mission Cleopatra. So I had lots of items so as not to copy myself. “ An artistic approach that leads to Chabatand for the greatest pleasure of spectators, on a new “Classix”, to see and therefore review on the Netflix platform.
The rest of this interview can be found in Télé-Loisirs this Monday, May 12!
