Trivia / The Three Magi

• Descended Creator: The trio Les Inconnus wrote the film and played the main roles.
• Fake Nationality: A French trio (Les Inconnus) as The Three Wise Men from Africa and The Middle East. To elaborate:
  • Pascal Légitimus as Caspar, King of Meroë (in nowadays' Sudan).
  • Didier Bourdon as Balthazar, King of Nippur (then-Parthian Empire, nowadays' Iraq).
  • Bernard Campan as Melchior, King of Palmyrene (nowadays' Syria).
• Meaningful Release Date: The film features The Three Wise Men and was released near Christmas 2001.
• Saved from Development Hell: Les Inconnus wanted to make a film about The Three Wise Men as soon as the peak of their career in the early 1990s, but due to a legal dispute in which their manager Paul Lederman who claimed ownership on their group name, they could not be reunited for a couple of years after The Three Brothers, and so only two of them made films afterwards (Didier Bourdon and Bernard Campan), those being 1997's Le Pari and 2000's L'Extraterrestre. Then they won a lawsuit against Lederman and were reunited for The Three Magi.

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