Ben Croll Dotted by hilltop views and an historic city center, France’s southwestern city of Angoulême had certainly played host to a handful of live-action shoots in recent years.But for the most part, the commune, just under 50,000 strong, had made its name as the country’s cartoonist capital, the place where Gallic scribblers go to burnish their reputation at the Intl.
Comics Festival — the second largest in Europe — and maybe stuck around to work at one the three dozen animation or post-productions studios.So it goes without saying that nothing quite prepared the locals for when, in late 2018, Hollywood came knocking.Earlier that year, Wes Anderson looked toward a number of options when prepping the Cannes-debuting “The French.
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