The iconic French comic book characters Asterix and Obelix are heading back to the big screen for a new live-action adventure, with French filmmaker and actor Guillaume Canet set to helm the new movie Asterix & Obelix: The Silk Road, as well as taking on the role of Asterix alongside Gilles Lellouche as Obelix. Here’s a first look at the two actors in costume as the title characters…
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The Silk Road is based upon an original story from Philippe Mechelen and Julien Hervé and will see Asterix and Obelix heading to China on a new adventure. Production is expected to get underway in early 2020.
This of course won’t be the first live-action outing for the duo, as Christian Clavier and Gerard Depardieu brought the characters to life in 1999’s Asterix & Obelix Take on Ceasar and returned for the sequels Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra in 2002 and Asterix at the Olympic Games in 2008. Depardieu also returned as Obelix for 2012’s Asterix & Obelix: God Save Brittannia, with Edouard Baer portraying Asterix.
The franchise’s most recent feature, the animated movie Asterix: The Secret Of The Magic Potion, was released in 2018.
