(Paris) Laurent Tirard, director of the film Little Nicolasa box-office success in France and abroad, died on Thursday, his agent announced to AFP.
“He left us this Thursday, September 5, 2024 in Paris, at the age of 57, after having led, with immense courage, a long fight against illness,” his agent said in a statement.
Little Nicolasreleased in 2009, remains his greatest success, with more than 5 million admissions in France and two million worldwide.
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Little Nicolas’s Holidays (2014)
The sequel to the adaptation of the novels by Goscinny and Sempé followed, with Little Nicolas’s Holidays in 2014.
The French director also brought the adventures of the comic strip to the big screen Asterix and Obelixa duo of Gauls fighting against the Roman invasion, with Asterix and Obelix: In the Service of Her Majesty in 2012.
Laurent Tirard, born in Roubaix, in the north of France, had trained in cinema in the United States, at New York University.
He left for Hollywood, where he was a script reader at Warner, then a journalist for Studio Magazine, before becoming a screenwriter for television and then for cinema.
Struck by cancer in 2012, he underwent a bone marrow transplant which resulted in a graft reaction that “attacked his skin, lungs, liver, intestines,” he confided in 2020.