27-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Is Asterix & Obelix: The Big Fight on Netflix based on a book? Here's what we know
We are here to give you all the details about the highly anticipated new animated series on Netflix, Asterix & Obelix: The Big Fight, before it premieres. One of the most important questions surrounding the release is whether or not it is based on a book. The simple answer to that question is yes — it is based on a book. Want to know more? Scroll down.
Is Asterix & Obelix: The Big Fight on Netflix based on a book?
Yes, the show is based on the seventh album of the well-known French-language comic series by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo. Astérix and Obélix's community fights the Roman invaders in the 1964 novel The Battle of the Chieftains (Le Combat des Chefs) after Getafix, loses his memory and the recipe for a magic elixir.
What is Asterix & Obelix: The Big Fight about?
According to Netflix, Rome is desperate to take control of the final autonomous village in Gaul, which is where Astérix and Obélix reside, in the middle of the first millennium. A magic potion is the Gauls' key to victory in war, but when the potion master suffers from amnesia, the peasants are forced to fend for themselves against the Romans' strength.
Astérix and Obélix: The Big Fight release date
Astérix and Obélix: The Big Fight will be released on Netflix April 30, 2025.
Netflix describes it as, 'When their druid forgets how to prepare the magic potion, Asterix and Obelix must defend the village as Caesar plots to use a Gallic law against them.'
