Musical comedy The ten Commandments by Pascal Obispo can it be played in 2024? From next year, the interpreter of Lucy plans to launch a new show created from songs from the cult musical The ten Commandments. A project that Élie Chouraqui, the director of the original show, strives to have banned. The Paris Judicial Court, seized by the filmmaker and producer who cries counterfeiting, will decide the question on January 17. But before that, justice listened to the arguments of the two protagonists on Thursday, December 7.
Maître Charles Morel, lawyer for Élie Chouraqui and his company 7 Art spoke to the edition of Parisian published on newsstands Friday December 8. According to him, “there are limits to bad faith”. The latter points his finger “an ancient intimacy for money matters” between his client and Pascal Obispo. He clarified that The ten Commandments would not exist without its client and that the latter had a driving role in the development of the project and in the writing of the songs. “He is very angry” explained the lawyer about Élie Chouraqui. The expert pointed “Pascal Obispo’s very personal desire to pull the rug out from under us” of his client.
Pascal Obispo accused of mistreating the original show in an incendiary press release
Élie Chouraqui, director of the musical presented in 2000, published an inflammatory press release on his Instagram account in which he accuses Pascal Obispo of mistreating the original show. “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″, he warns on Instagram. He adds : “It will NEITHER be a reprise NOR a return, and will have nothing to do with the original show apart from the songs which will be re-recorded with a new cast.”. After highlighting the work of the artists from the first version of the show, such as Kamel Ouali, Sonia Rykiel and Gian Tito, the director says he “unworthy” faced with such a project.
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