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‘The Big War’ First Look: Iconic French WWII Graphic Novel Gets a Big-Budget Adaptation From Mathieu Kassovitz (EXCLUSIVE)
Director Mathiieu Kassovitz and producer Aton Soumache share their ambitions plans to bring one of France's great graphic novels to the big screen.
“ The Big War,” one of Europe’s most ambitious feature projects brought to market at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, is heading the AFM with some incredible new graphics for its CG animal cast. Inspired by the iconic two-part graphic novel “La Bête Est Morte,” written by Edmond-François Calvo during the Nazi occupation of France during World War II and published just after the liberation of Paris, “The Big War” is helmed by “La Haine” director Mathieu Kassovitz and produced by leading French producer Aton Soumache, whose recent credits include Annecy winner “Little Nicholas – Happy as Can Be” and Netflix’s mega-hit “Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir, the Movie.” Ahead of this year’s AFM, Kassovitrz and Soumache sat down with Variety to discuss the project’s origins, telling a story the whole family can share and why their ambitions far outweigh the film’s eye-catching €30 million budget.
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