Filmmaker and producer Elie Chouraqui assigns the production of the revival of the musical “The Ten Commandments” by singer Pascal Obispo

Filmmaker and producer Elie Chouraqui sues the production of a show by Pascal Obispo, “The Ten Commandments – The Desire to Love”asking in particular to cancel the holding of this musical comedy scheduled for March 2024, we learned on Wednesday October 4 from his lawyer. “A summons was filed with the Paris judicial court last week”Charles Morel told AFP, confirming information from the daily The Parisian.

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“I find it dishonest to take my job”

Elie Chouraqui requests the cancellation of the show, as well as 352,000 euros in damages (426,000 including a subsidiary request), according to his lawyer. “I find it dishonest to take my work, to take everything I have done, but also what Kamel (Ouali, editor’s note) did, what Sonia Rykiel did (for the costumes, editor’s note) (.. .) and to reclaim it by saying: it’s the 25th anniversary of the Ten Commandments but it’s just me, there are no more others”explained Elie Chouraqui on C8 Tuesday October 3. “I take it as an attack on my quality as an author and above all an attack on me as a man”, he added.

It’s about a “summons for copyright infringement, trademark infringement, parasitism and unfair competition”, according to the summons, a copy of which was consulted by AFP. Elie Chouraqui summons COMM, the producing company of the new show, but also all the co-authors of the 2000 musical: Pascal Obispo, Albert Cohen (co-producer), Patrice Guirao and Lionel Florence (for the lyrics of the songs), Kamel Ouali and Sonia Rykiel’s successor. “We were authorized to assign a fixed day (an emergency procedure)” and, except prior mediation, “a hearing date has been set, December 7”, specified Me Morel. Contacted by AFP, Pascal Obispo’s entourage did not immediately comment.