Every day, AlloCiné recommends a film to (re)watch on TV. Tonight: Thomas Ngijol plays superheroes.
After Case Départ, Le Crocodile du Botswanga and Fastlife, comedian and humorist Thomas Ngijol is tackling a new project in France. Announced as “the first French superhero film” at Comic Con in Paris in 2016, Black Snake, the legend of the black snake sees the light of day three years later.
Alongside Jean-Pascal Zadi, Thomas Ngijol is developing “Le Superman noir”, one of his most famous sketches, into a feature film: in the Africa of the 1970s, Clotaire Sangala, an egoist without ambition, ends up embrace his destiny as a superhero while trying to get rid of the dictator of his native country. With it comes “great powers… but zero responsibility”!
Co-directed with Karole Rocher, black-snake is full of nods to blaxploitation and American superhero productions. It thus paves the way for other films of the genre in France, whether in a comic register (Super-heroes despite him by Philippe Lacheau) or dramatic (How I became a superhero on Netflix).
Black Snake, the legend of the black snake by Thomas Ngijol, Karole Rocher with Thomas Ngijol, Karole Rocher, Michel Gohou…
From 10 years old
Tonight on C8 at 9:15 p.m.