Alexandre Astier would like to offer fans the director’s cut of Kaamelott: First part

While Kaamelott: Second part has just taken the lead in the French box office with some 600,000 admissions in one week, Alexandre Astier, its director, has just revealed to our colleagues at First that he plans to release the long version of the first cinematographic part of his pastiche of the legend of the Knights of the Round Table.

There is, in fact, a version “complete”the famous director’s cut from the Anglo-Saxons, which is waiting quietly on hard drives. Alexandre Astier wishes to highlight his original editing in order to highlight around twenty minutes, which remained lurking in the shadows to his great regret.

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And Kaamelott «pure premium»

For Alexandre Astier, whose verve we know, the Kaamelott: First part released in 2021 would only “a Covid version”. The film lasts exactly 2 hours because, according to Astier’s confessions made to Firstthe health crisis of 2020 disrupted production: “Movie theaters were going through a difficult time. To meet the deadlines for reopening theaters in summer 2021, several scenes had to be deleted during editing. I agreed to cut the film, maybe it was the right thing to do. But this version of KV1there you go, it’s missing a quarter of an hour, twenty minutes, compared to the version that I liked”.

When will Alexandre Astier tackle this «pure premium» Kaamelott: First part ?. He seems not to know it himself because “In fact, everything will depend on what it will cost in post-production”. The director, perfectionist as hell, first wants to improve the special effects of the version released in 2021, so that – and this is his great ambition – this new version becomes the official version of the first part of the trilogy.

Kaamelott: First part by Alexandre Astier, released in 2021, with Alexandre Astier, Thomas Cousseau, Christian Clavier, Géraldine Nakache, Anne Girouard…