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Kenneth Branagh adapts the first volume of the Eoin Colfer fantasy saga.
In 2001, when Harry Potter getting ready to hit the movies, teen novels are hugely successful, especially fantasy and fantasy stories. It was at this time that the Irish Eoin Colfer unveiled his Artemis Fowl, the story of a very smart and rich kid, who discovers a hidden world populated by fairies, and finds himself involved in their underground fights.
Eighteen years later, on August 14, we will discover on the big screen the adaptation of the first volume of this successful literary saga. Several studios wanted to adapt this story, and it was finally Disney who acquired the rights and who charged Kenneth Branagh, the director of Thor, from Cinderella and Crime of Orient-Express (also an actor, whom we have seen Harry Potter where he played Gilderoy Lockhart), to film this story of adventure for the whole family. He hired the young Ferdia Shaw to embody the hero, and surrounded him with renowned comedians, some of whom were already in his version of Crime of Orient-Express, like Judi Dench (M in James Bond) and Josh Gad (The Mad in The beauty and the Beast).
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Here is his pitch: The young and wealthy Artemis Fowl (Ferdia Shaw) – 12 years old and already endowed with an extraordinary intelligence – is coming down from a long lineage of criminals and is preparing to fight hard against the fairy people, powerful creatures. and mysterious who live in an underworld and who could well be at the origin of the disappearance of his father 2 years earlier. To carry on his fight, he will have to call on all his strength and his devilish ingenuity, even to take captain Holly Short (Lara McDonnell) – an elf known for his bravery – and redeem him for a ransom. gold. For the dwarf killer and kleptomaniac Mulch Diggums (Josh Gad) – who will try anything to help Holly – and the commander Root (Judi Dench), head of FARFADET (Armed Forces of Regulation and Fairies of DETection, the department of recognition of the fairy police), the party looks more than tight …
And his teaser, which has just been unveiled by the studio, where we discover the little hero on the air of "Dark Deck", from Radiohead:
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