List of Asterix films
This is a list of Asterix films.
Films[edit]
Animation[edit]
| Title | Animated Films | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 Steinvorth 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 |
Dargaud Films
Les Productions René Goscinny |
Dargaud Films
Les Productions René Goscinny |
Extrafilm Produktion GmbH | A. Film A/SMandarin SAS
2D3D Animations |
Belvision Grid Animation M6 Films |
M6 Films | ||
| Distributor | EMI (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 |
Voice English cast and Characters[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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)
- 2023 – Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom (Astérix et Obélix : l'Empire du milieu)[2]
History[edit]
- 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 and the Big Fight, Asterix Conquers America and Asterix and the Vikings were the only three produced solely outside France with the former two being produced in Germany and the latter in Denmark.
- 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 stereoscopic 3D.
- The animated Asterix movies that were dubbed into English were all dubbed in either France or the United Kingdom, with the exception of Asterix and the Vikings, where it was then dubbed in the United States, in order to bring Asterix into the U.S. market, while The Mansion of the Gods and The Secret of the Magic Potion were dubbed in Canada. 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.
- Asterix Conquers America and Asterix and The Vikings are the only animated Asterix films to be produced in English first, then dubbed into French.
- Though several of the Asterix comics are available in the United States, most of the Asterix films have not seen releases in America, likely due to the comics being not as popular as in the United Kingdom. The first five films (Asterix the Gaul, Asterix and Cleopatra, The Twelve Tasks of Asterix, Asterix and Caesar and Asterix in Britain) did see VHS releases through Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment and Just for Kids Home Video, but all five have since gone out of print.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ 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.