Initially, it was about realizing a documentary film mixing the archive videos of Jean-Jacques Sempé and René Goscinny with the comic stories of Petit Nicolas. Finally the project evolved and the desire to realize the whole film in animation was essential.
Compared to the universe of the authors, this seemed coherent and also made it possible to adapt, for the first time, Le Petit Nicolas in animated film.
Le Petit Nicolas is this laughing and mischievous boy who between camaraderie, arguments, fights, games, nonsense, and punishments galore, lives a childhood filled with joy and learning. As the story progresses, the boy slips in the workshop of its creatorsand challenges them with humor. Sempé and Goscinny will tell him about their meeting, their friendship, but also their journeys, their secrets and their childhood.
Anne Goscinny who today manages the immense work of his father René Goscinny participated in the writing assignment in particular on the sequences which told the lives of Sempé and Goscinny in order to add a maximum of biographical elements.
“Le Petit Nicolas” is also
• “The great story of Little Nicolas” with unpublished archives of Goscinny and Sempé. A book available in bookstores since September 22
• “The little Nicolas”the complete in 2 volumes which are expected in bookstores on October 13
• “Little Nicolas’ Notebook of Curiosities” with 47 Deyrolle plates, more than 50 small drawings of Petit Nicolas and a complete story. Discover the wonders of nature, the richness of fauna and flora and the particularities of the human body. A book to also be found in bookstores on October 13.