The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (2010) on Netflix
PG20101h 47mActionAdventureFantasy
In 1912 Paris, journalist Adèle Blanc-Sec hunts in Egypt for a mummified physician, hoping to revive him and save her comatose sister. The scientist she needs has been sentenced to death.
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Plot summary
In 1912 Paris, the scientist Marie-Joseph Espérandieu works with telepathic techniques and accidentally hatches a pterosaur egg, 135 million years old, inside the National Museum of Natural History. A former prefect dies in a taxicab, a drunken passerby named Ferdinand Choupard is the only witness, and the President of France puts Inspector Albert Caponi on the case. The journalist and travel writer Adèle Blanc-Sec is in Egypt, hunting the mummy of Patmosis, physician to Ramesses II. She means to revive the mummy using Espérandieu's methods so that it can treat her sister Agathe, comatose for five years. A rival, Professor Dieuleveult, stands in her way, and Espérandieu himself has been blamed for the pterosaur attacks and sentenced to death.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (2010)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Jacques Tardi had resisted offers to adapt his Adèle Blanc-Sec comics for years over concerns about creative control, until Luc Besson's EuropaCorp secured the rights in January 2008; Tardi endorsed Besson's script and cameoed as a ticket puncher.
- Gilles Lellouche, cast as the bumbling Inspector Albert Caponi, wore padded costumes to make himself look heavier in the part.
