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They should have trusted Goscinny

posted 14 years ago by Jep_Gambardella
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The script of the first Astérix movie combined elements from a few different books and it wasn't very successful. Then came the second, which was based in a single book. This was by far the best Astérix movie. The third one was based on one of the books but had a lot of extra stuff thrown in there, and it resulted in a resounding failure. What conclusion can be drawn from this? That you should just trust Goscinny, who was a great writer, and keep your film as close as possible to his material. With this "Lucky Luke" film they picked characters and plot elements from a dozen different books, and the resulting screenplay was a huge mess.

I still enjoyed it, but I think it could have been much better.

Don't give me songs
Give me something to sing about

[–] electricfreddy 13 years ago

If I recall correctly the animated movie Daisy Town was also a very faithful adaptation and that worked fine. I don't mind if they make some alterations but there's not a single character in the movie that acts like the characters in the comic books.