earlier manga The first episode of the new animated TV series featuring the Little Prince, entitled The Planet time, will air in late December on France 3 and soon in 80 countries.
At Christmas, a cartoon broadcast on television tell the further adventures of the Little Prince. The great hero invented by Saint-Exupery has it become an ordinary derivative?
Not surprisingly, the Little Prince has bailed. The hero of Saint-Exupery is back. Not in the shape of slender kid outlined by the aviator but that of another strapping chewed so ready to take on manga ¬ primetime on all flat panel displays that light up at Christmas. The first episode of the new animated TV series featuring the Little Prince will indeed be released in late December on France 3 and soon in 80 countries. An event if we compare it to its budget, huge for a cartoon TV (18.6 million euros), but also because it will not fail to jump fans of the work of Saint-Ex. For Planet of the time, as the first episode is called, has nothing to do with the story Clean design imagined by the writer. Punch, battles, monsters of our time, a hero should not be contemplative but active. This neo-Petit Prince continues so new adventures drew his sword, flanked by a fox as the talkative Donkey from Shrek.
Thus freed from the shackles of history, we can already dream and imagine everything for its future. Petit Prince becomes a teenager, the Little Prince exchanged his green suit cons of skinny jeans at the Gap, the Little Prince has a girlfriend, the Little Prince smokes his first cigarette ... Stop! It is not there, but it has still changed. 3D technology, which shapes systematically hero to disproportionately enlarged and hair gelled as a dessert English, is obviously no stranger to this amazing metamorphosis. Beyond the looks, it is the whole universe of Antoine de Saint-Exupery passing the centrifuge of modernity. And startled the purists of the work.
With this new project, the heirs of the writer, who died in 1944, have gone one step. So far, Succession Saint Exupery-d'Agay, which brings together four nephews and nieces of the aviator and their descendants, had vetoed the project on the history devised by their parent. "We do not touch a mythical hero": This was the credo of the family, who watches over the literary work. This family spirit has not prevented from developing in parallel a sacred culture. Le Petit Prince, whose name is submitted to the National Institute of Industrial Property, like all book titles Saint-Ex, but also the famous line "Draw me a sheep" are the fortunes of nephews and grand-nephews.
And we are witnessing the slow emancipation of the character created by Saint-Exupery. For, in the realm of wonder, the greatest heroes are often beyond their creators, like the Pinocchio of Collodi, recovered by Disney, or the Alice of Lewis Carroll, redesigned by Tim Burton. Requires time, they will of course face their avatars in the form of multiple licenses. The Little Prince has grown up. Welcome to the twenty-first century ...
Source: Figaro.
