The New Adventures of Lucky Luke

Les Nouvelles Aventures de Lucky Luke (English: The New Adventures of Lucky Luke) is a French animated television series based on Lucky Luke, a Franco-Belgian comic book series created by the Belgian cartoonist Morris. The series consists of fifty-two 30 minute episodes. It was directed by Olivier Jean-Marie and produced by Marc du Pontavice at the Xilam studios in Paris, France. The music for the series was composed by Ramon Pipin and Hervé Lavandier.

Plot

Lucky Luke is the cowboy who shoots faster than his own shadow. With the help of his faithful horse Jolly Jumper (the world's smartest horse) and sometimes also Rintindumb (the world's dumbest dog) he maintains peace and order. In the Wild West he hunts down desperadoes, keeps sharpshooters like Billy the Kid in check and constantly recaptures and returns The Daltons to prison.

French Cast

• Antoine de Caunes: Lucky Luke
• Eric Legrand: Jolly Jumper, Jack and William Dalton
• Bernard Alane: Averell Dalton
• Gérard Surugue: Joe Dalton
• Francis Perrin: Rintindumb
• Isabelle Mangini: Calamity Jane
• Eric Metayer: Général Custer
• Donald Reignoux: Billy the Kid
• Marc Saez: Shérif Sleekhorn, Tchin-Tchin
• François Siener: Aigle Intègre, John Glutton
• Françoise Vallon: Lola Montes
• Valérie Karsenti

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Episodes

Production

Ten years after the latest round of Lucky Luke, Xilam has launched the production of new episodes. The desire to own the Mark Pontavice for this series is that it has to fill in his existing gap between the series already carried "who have aged" and BD "who have not aged." Fifty-two episodes were made with a budget of 120 million francs (just over EUR 18 million). These episodes do not include any history album, there are new stories written for the series. Broadcasting

• Because he died in July of 2001 and the show wasn't released until September, apart from a few rushes, Morris never viewed the series.
• The series uses the graphic process Morris that uses colors to differentiate a character according to its value in the (foreground, background), according to his mood state (green rage, ...) or to describe a mood (red fire, night blue, ...).

Some characters are caricatures (Garcimore, Roberto Benigni, Woody Allen, ...)

• This series features new historical characters général Custer, the Lumière brothers, Lola Montez, Buffalo Bill, John Ford, Ulysses S. Grant, Queen Victoria , ...) or literary Sherlock Holmes, Don Quixote ...) .
• An error seems to have occurred in the chronology of events. In episode 47, A Bone For The Daltons, Lucky Luke states that he knows an archaeologist who he later meets for the first time in the next episode, The Great Nose Of Talisman.

Broadcast History

The series was broadcast in France on channel France 3 in The Minikeums preview. The series was later aired on France 2, Fox Kids /Jetix, Canal J, France 5 and since 7 July 2014 on 6ter. In Belgium, the series was broadcast on The Three [8]. In Switzerland it was broadcast on RTS Two and in Quebec on Télé-Québec. Unusually for a cartoon the series has been broadcast in prime time resulting in a rise in popularity. Viewing figures was close to 4 million viewers every Sunday night.

The series was also broadcast in Germany under the name of Lucky Luke - Die neuen Abenteuer.

See also

• List of French animated television series
• List of French television series
• Lucky Luke Comics

External links

• The New Adventures of Lucky Luke at the Internet Movie Database
• Les Nouvelles Aventures de Lucky Luke on Allociné
• Les Nouvelles Aventures de Lucky Luke on Planète Jeunesse

References