Luc Besson was born to make “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.” Based on the influential French comics series “Valérian and Laureline” (written by Pierre Christin and illustrated by ...

Luc Besson (The Fifth Element) expertly filters familiar film tropes into funhouse mirror versions of themselves. There aren’t many filmmakers who can play with clichés and somehow turn them on their ...

Steven Weintraub launched Collider in the summer of 2005. As Editor-in-chief, he has taken the site from a small bedroom operation to having millions of readers around the world. Over the years, he ...

The Fifth Element director Luc Besson has debuted his very own Twitter account and revealed his next project, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. An adaptation of the French comic series ...

“This is the biggest adventure of my life,” Besson said at Comic-Con. By Borys Kit Senior Film Writer And with a budget of $180 million, co-financed with his media company EuropaCorp, and a story that ...

It's been 20 years since Luc Besson made his outrageous genre-changing sci-fi adventure The Fifth Element. And now he has returned to space with a passion project, Valerian and the City of a Thousand ...

The $200 million sci-fi epic has analysts worried that a flop could torpedo his storied EuropaCorp, even as a new pact with STX provides breathing room (and an escape from troubled Relativity Media) ...

It’s unusual nowadays for the backers of a tentpole film to announce the vfx studio or studios well in advance. Security considerations alone can trump such an announcement. But “Valerian and the City ...

If you’ve never heard of the French sci-fi comic Valerian and Laureline, then you’ve missed out on the stories that have proven to be influential on Star Wars, The Fifth Element, and space opera tales ...

On the 20th anniversary of space opera "The Fifth Element," it's become clear how much it shares with Besson's latest passion project, "Valerian." Luc Besson was born to make “Valerian and the City of ...