Michel Vaillant comic book adaptation (2003)

[Bobby]

It's a movie from france, which is why its obviously unknown in the US. A comic book adaptation from the same name "Michel Vaillant" from Jean Graton which is about a classy/James Bond type character based in the auto racing world. His team called the "Vaillants" to which his dad Henri Vaillant is the owner , Michel's brother, Jean-Pierre Vaillant is the team engineer. MV of course is the main driver along with his best friend , Steve Warson , a Texan. Their main adversaries is a team called "Leaders" owned by the daughter, of a mysterious oriental man by the same name who has died (i cant recall exactly how or if it ever was explained in the comics what happened to him). The team is know for their spying and sabotage and determination to victory. The main drivers are Bob Cramer , a brazilian if i remember correctly and his co-driver Dan Hawkins. In most of the comics , the two teams play a cat and mouse game troughout different racing categories.They also race among real drivers such as M. Schumacher, Damon Hill, Villeneuve etc. There's tons more characters but ill try to keep it short for now. Luc Besson , director of The Fith Element , Subway , The Professional and producer of the Taxi trilogy and Transporter wrote it along with Gilles Malecon. It is directed by car comercial director Louis-Pascal Couvelaire (which did an amazing job , very beautifull images as i have never seen in a car movie).

The COMIC:


The MOVIE:


if you have any questions about the film , let me know because if i put all the info here it will be way to long and way to much!

I have seen the movie and i absolutely loved it, IMO the best racing movie i have seen to date! (of the ones i have seen obviously)

hope this might interest some people and maybe get some other people who know it to talk about it!

[Bobby]

Im going to tell you first off this is nowhere near the crap that Driven was. This movie is very different, of course its based in the racing world, but its firstly a comic book adaptation and secondly a more artistic and true film to racing. As for the DVD i can't seem to get the info. It has no subtitles from what i see and its only in french, altough on the back it says "original version french/english DTS" in french. I dont know what that means. In the movie , just like in the comics , some characters speak english ; Steve Warson, Gabrielle, Leader team. I'll try to find out more info but so far it seems its all in french excepts for those characters that speak in english. Here's a couple of screenshots from the DVD that i found;

Trailers (right hand side under "video / photo" : www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=45667.html

12 Making-Of's : www.europacorp.com/Film/LigneDeVie/videos_choix.php?FilmIdx=9&Type=3









DVD Menu







If i find more stuff, ill post it here!

Enjoy!

[dan]

Where can i find it? Is it also in english?

[Bobby]

Well you can find it trough several online shops from france (DVDs). You might want to look on file sharing pograms *cough*limewire*cough*. As for the movie, it only in french site it was made by france. It has bilingual parts tough since the character Steve Warson is american, and the team Leader is english as well. Good luck!