The actor-director is working on the continuation of his cinematographic saga. He made some startling revelations last week on this topic.
Alexandre Astier is currently preparing the second part of the cinematographic saga Kaamelott. To do this, the actor-director created artificial intelligence software, he said. during a masterclass at the Geneva International Film Festival.
“For writing Kaamelott – second partthe first thing I do when I turn on my computer is to open a software that I called KV2 Robot dot command”, revealed the director. “It is a software written in Python [un langage informatique, NDLR] and who tells me what to do.”
And Astier to develop: “[Il me dit]’here there is this and you are missing this, and you have to bring this, and this actor who is supposed to be in such a situation, in fact he is not there yet even though he is supposed to to be there that day, etc’.”
“Nerdy enough for you?”
“He’s my boyfriend. Is that nerd enough for you? We’re not far from the psychiatric hospital, do we agree?” he laughs. “And there, I start to get a little respect from my own teams. They say to themselves: ‘Well, he’s crazy, but sometimes it’s not bad'”, he adds more seriously.
Released in 2021, Kaamelott – Volume 1 had met with great success, with 2.6 million admissions. The second part will be divided into two parts, revealed Alexandre Astier in March 2022 on the show As an aside. “He’s at the Kill Bill, a little, you see? It’s two times two hours, separated by four/five months in release.”
“Make it even bigger”
Alexandre Astier had declared in February 2022 at the microphone of Mister Culture that he was going to “try to do even bigger” with the continuation of his saga. On the set of Dailyin August 2021, Astier had been just as mysterious: “I will go where I can go, that is to say by surprising.”
Alexandre Astier had told BFMTV, at the time of the exit, to want to carry out a second shutter more heroic fantasy than the first: “It should, yes. In any case, that’s the point of the game of the trilogy – to evolve the saga into something more and more powerful, more and more visual.”
Written, produced and directed by Alexandre Astier, Kaamelott – First Part takes place ten years after the events narrated in the series. We find there a depressed Arthur, refusing to find his throne now held by Lancelot. Prestigious guest stars like Sting or Clovis Cornillac give the answer to the heroes of the series.
