{"id":5466,"date":"2009-12-01T22:31:23","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T11:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=5466"},"modified":"2009-12-01T22:33:32","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T11:33:32","slug":"pictures-of-adele-blanc-sec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/12\/01\/pictures-of-adele-blanc-sec\/","title":{"rendered":"Pictures of Ad\u00e8le Blanc-Sec"},"content":{"rendered":"

Publicity stills for Luc Besson’s femme “Indiana Jones” period adventure film, Les Aventures Extraordinaires d\u2019Ad\u00e8le Blanc-Sec<\/strong> [aka The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Dry-White] (France-2010; dir. Luc Besson) have appeared, now that\u00a0 principle photography has been completed. The film has a theatrical release date of April 2010 in France — though who knows when an English-subtitled version might appear?<\/p>\n

For more information on the background of Adele’s Adventures, head<\/a> to the Backbrain article “Mummies, Pteradactyls and Luc Besson” from 28 October, where you can explore the comic series on which it is based.<\/p>\n

The stills focus, not unreasonably, on lead actress Louise Bourgoin:<\/p>\n

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Created by comic artist Jacques Tardi, Ad\u00e8le Blanc-Sec is a lady journalist in the 1920s and 1930s who finds herself dealing with an assortment of monsters and supernatural antagonists — not to mention the occasional human oddity, handling them with appropriate French savoir-faire.<\/p>\n

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The following link will take you to a French television current affairs item that shows production scenes and gives some hints as to the film’s look and content — I think I spy an Egyptian tomb that will no doubt produce a mummy or three. No sign of the pterodactyl though: video.tf1.fr<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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