news culture With 3 million admissions at the box office, this French action saga returns to cinemas in 2024
It’s hard to count adaptations from cartoons or comics, but there are a few made in France that had great success but went missing for a while. And including the adventures of a hero who shaped an entire generation.
Largo Winch: One Way to the Balkans trailer released in 2002 on PC, PS2, GameCube and Xbox.
Largo Winch, from novels to comics
If we tell you about Belgian comics, Indiana Jones, James Bond or even Ethan Hunt, do you tell us? When you have answered Largo winds, Congratulations! Written by the Belgian author Jean Van Hamme, to whom we owe something XIII etc ThorgalLargo Winch began his career in the world of fiction with six books published between 1977 and 1984. It would have ended up in comics right away, but Le Journal de Tintin, which wanted to invest in the American market in the early 1970s, gave up because the illustrators working across the Atlantic did not understand the criteria for European comics.
So it’s with the novels that the adventure really begins. The success is modest, but well on the way, What motivates Van Hamme to start adapting the novels into comics?. For this he turns to the designer Philippe Francq. Released from 1990 to 2010The comic “Largo Winch” is a great success and is even considered the greatest success of Franco-Belgian comics for an informed audience. We’re still talking about it more than 400 million albums soldobviously counting the three albums he wrote Eric Giacometti. In the early 2000s, the project became one filming. The production was entrusted to Jérôme Salle (“The Tourist”, “Petit Pays”), while the screenplay is the result of collaborative writing between the director and Julien Rappeneau.
The music is composed by Alexandre Desplat (Skirmishers, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Shape of Water). In the casting we find Tomer Sisley, Kristin Scott Thomas, Miki Manojlovic, Mélanie Thierry or Gilbert Melki. Released in late 2008, Largo Winch meets one Very nice success in France with 1.7 million visitors, but fails almost everywhere. With a budget of around 25 million dollars, the film only brought in 17. This does not prevent the production of one second film released in 2010 and in which we still find Sharon Stone
Finally a date for the third film
With Three million visitors in France, one would have thought that a third film would see the light of day, perhaps more focused on the markets in which it can function. Nothing will happen in the end, and it took time Wait until 2020 to hear about a project of the third opus. This year it was Tomer Sisley himself who assured that the film would see the light of day, and history proved him right! Actually a third film was formalized at the end of 2022, with filming then imminent.
I resumed training. We’ve upped the physical a bit as there are still two or three stunts to do. I have my director who came back from Thailand where he was looking for a location and now he is in Bulgaria. It’s imminent. “I’m starting on February 1st,” the actor stated.
Tomer Sisley will be back as Largo Winch, though The realization was entrusted to Olivier Masset-Depasse. Today, thanks to French Film, we learn that the film will be released in 2024 after a 13-year absence. More precisely, the appointment is made on October 16, 2024, subtitled: The silver price. Eager to seduce the American audience, Tomer Sisley is accompanied by him James Franco (Spider-Man, 127 Hours, The Disaster Artist). We also know that Clotilde Hesme and Elise Tilloloy will be in the game and that the screenplay was written by Domenico la Porta, Olivier Masset-Depasse and Giordano Gederlinin based on the 13th and 14th volumes from DB.
In the third part we therefore find the hero devastated by the recent kidnapping of his 15-year-old son. He also watches helplessly as his business partner commits suicide during a live press conference. As everything turns against him and his business empire begins to crumble, he discovers that the two events may be connected: if he finds the criminals responsible, he could see his son again. From Canada to Bangkok to Burma… Largo doesn’t yet know that his quest will lead him straight to hell, AlloCiné tells us.
As for filming it finally started on February 6th and ends on June 29th, so in a few days. At an announced date, Omar Sy is definitely not taking part in this new adventure that began before the pandemic and has had to be postponed several times.
