The rag burns between Pascal Obispo and Élie Chouraqui. If the singer and the director are arguing today, it is because of the famous project to relaunch the musical “The 10 Commandments”. In October 2000, this show written by Lionel Florence and Patrice Guirao, directed by Élie Chouraqui and composed by Pascal Obispo was a great success.
23 years later, Pascal Obispo decided to relaunch the musical by signing a new version with new actors, a project planned for 2024, in homage to Daniel Lévi, who died in 2022 and who played the character of Moïse in the original version . But now, this project is not at all to the taste of Élie Chouraqui, director of the original show.
“I don’t want my show to be damaged. It’s painful for me to know that my show could perhaps be damaged. I find it indecent. There are things that are done and things that don’t not happening!” launched the famous director a few days ago on the set of the show Jordan’s. And to tackle Pascal Obispo: “I find it dishonest to take my job, everything I’ve done […] and to appropriate it by saying: “It’s the 25th anniversary of the “Ten Commandments”, but it’s just me, there are no more others.” Furious, Élie Chouraqui went so far as to file a complaint to prevent Pascal Obispo’s project from seeing the light of day;
Élie Chouraqui attacks Pascal Obispo again on Instagram
This Friday, October 6, the producer once again spoke on Instagram. Through a press release, the 73-year-old man made a point of “to warn the public of this usurpation and also to express [sa] anger”. “No, the show called “The 10 Commandments, the desire to love” scheduled for 2024 will have nothing to do with the Show “The ten Commandments” created in 2000. It will neither be a reprise nor a return and will have nothing to do with the original show.
And to add: “THE TEN COMMANDMENTS” cannot be transformed, shredded, mistreated, diverted. It is an inalienable collective work, and each of its authors, including Pascal Obispo, to whom I offered the musical direction of this show, should know this and demand it”.
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