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Asterix and Obelix arrive on Netflix
Bangkok Post
|May 01, 2025
France's beloved comic book heroes Asterix and Obelix are set for their latest incarnation in a Netflix mini-series released yesterday, hoping to win over new fans, notably in the United States and Asia.
The plucky Gallic rebels, created by illustrator Albert Uderzo and writer Rene Goscinny in 1959, have a vast following thanks to the original comic books that have sold around 400 million copies.
A series of big-budget French films — the latest in 2023 took them to China in Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom — has also helped expand their reach.
But warrior Asterix and his powerful but dim-witted sidekick Obelix are yet to conquer viewers in the United States and Britain, which have their own comic book and animated hero characters from Marvel, Disney and other stables.
"Often unfortunately in these markets the Asterix films tend to be released in arthouse cinemas," said Celeste Surugue, head of the Editions Albert Rene publishing company that owns the rights to the original comics.
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