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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 ...

Written and directed by Luc Besson (of Léon: The Professional, La Femme Nikita, and Lucy), Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is based on the Valérian and Laureline graphic novel series by ...

“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 ...

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 ...

The filmmaker made his first appearance at the Con with 'Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.' By Borys Kit Senior Film Writer The filmmaker compared the impending box-office showdown to a ...

In his ludicrously entertaining 2014 science-fiction thriller, “Lucy,” the French director Luc Besson gave us a chemically enhanced action heroine with the rare ability to harness 100% of her ...

Welcome to “Playback,” a Variety podcast bringing you exclusive conversations with the talents behind many of today’s hottest films. Filmmaker Luc Besson grew up at sea, soaking up beautiful scenery, ...

Luc Besson was feeling a little discombobulated. On a recent afternoon, the French director of such films as “La Femme Nikita,” “The Fifth Element” and “Lucy” sat in a Los Angeles multiplex, where he ...