Cult for 42 years: Will this adventure saga that has celebrated generations get a film rights thanks to Omar Sy?

“Did I tell you I want to make a film about cities of gold?“In Viens, on se parole published by Albin Michel on April 25, Omar Sy shares his cinematic dream. The two-time actor and producer explains that he is thinking about this project.

“- Did I tell you that I want to make a film about golden cities?”

– I think so… you like to re-watch classics that belong to the collective imagination.

Maybe I’ll have a condor in the golden cities!

– Which makes me want to explore the world in the first place. I nod with travel. I had my “hollow needle” in Lupine, and there, who knows?, I may have a condor in the cities of gold. In Jurassic World, I trained my dinosaur to be blue. And I’m not going to lie when I tell you this, it’s the craziest thing ever. What I like is travel. did you hear that Moving from the ordinary to the imaginary, I am interested in the bridges that are built under my feet. I’m entering a phase where I can enjoy myself and it’s even better if people like it.“

For reference, The Mysterious Cities of Gold is considered a cult cartoon of the 1980s. The story begins in Our Lord in 1532, Spain, where a 12-year-old boy, Esteban, left the Cathedral of Barcelona to listen. Extraordinary stories of sailors. Thus, he met the navigator Mendoza, who claimed to have saved him at sea when he was a child.

This was confirmed by a part of the mysterious pendant that Esteban wore around his neck… When his guardian died, Esteban decided to follow Mendoza in search of the legendary cities of gold. Then he set off for a new world, following his origins…

Aired from June 1982 to June 1983 (and re-aired several times thereafter), the fiction Secret Cities of Gold was loosely adapted from Scott O’Dell’s novel Road to Gold. It has only one season and 39 episodes.

In this book of interviews created in dialogue with Nouvel Observateur journalist Elsa Vigueru, Omar Sy talks about, among other things, his wishes for the future. wants to implement it thanks to the creation of a new production structure.

New production structure

“Together with two friends we created Carrousel Studios. We will finance, develop, produce our ideas, for television, for film, for platforms.” Omar Sai was already a producer, but wants to go further with this new company. “We want even more independence, more freedom.“, he explains.

This structure consists of three personalities, as Omar Sai explains in his book.There’s Louis Leterrier, who we ran Lupine with, he directed the first few episodes. We also did Far from the Periphery together. He’s done a lot of things, the remake of Clash of the Titans and more recently Fast and Furious 10. Another friend of mine is Thomas Bensky, CEO and co-founder of Pulse Films, producer of Gangs of London, among others. He was introduced to me by my American agent, we zoomed in during Covid and since then we haven’t stopped talking to each other, we have a common vision for the profession. There are three of us: I, an actor; Louis, Director; and Thomas, producer.”

Desire to go further

With this structure, Omar Sy explains that “You want to go further“. And added: “We already do a lot, it’s true, but we still experience so much frustration, we continue to spend so much energy persuading, making compromises we’d rather not make. If we are self-funding, saving a few tedious steps, it allows us to recover the time we lost in the struggle to reinvest it in creativity. We figured that between the three of us, we’d probably do better by spending a little less effort fighting for unnecessary power. To answer your question, we don’t “need” it, but we want to have fun, and that’s what makes it fun.has.”

Among projects as a producer, Carousel will be producing Louis Leterrier’s next film, which he recently talked about. The author of the film is Matthew Robinson. This will be the studio’s first production. 11817 will begin filming this summer before Fast & Furious 11 is slated for release in 2025. This is “A little horror movie. Kingsley Ben-Adri, who plays Bob Marley in the biopic about the King of Reggae, which opened in theaters last February, and Greta Lee, the actress who recently appeared in the cast of “Past Lives,” are in talks to be nominated for an Oscar for best picture. The main roles in this film, which combines science fiction and horror.

Projects of Omar Siy

After his stint on the jury at the recently concluded Cannes Film Festival, Omar Sy will be seen on the big and small screens in the coming months. He is waiting for Joe Carnahan’s films Shadow Force, with Kerry Washington, The Book of Clarence, Stranger’s Case by Brant Andersen, The Killer by John Woo. She will be in Anne Le Nye’s new film Marriage Story in 2025. She currently stars in the new Netflix movie French Lover, directed by Nina Reeves. Finally, remember that The Intouchables hits theaters this summer.

Let’s Talk by Omar Sai and Elsa Vigorex, published by Albin Michel is available now