Luc Besson to direct Science Fiction comic Valerian

[Hunter Rider]

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It looks like a hotchpotch of The Fifth Element, John Carter, Jupiter Ascending and Enders Game.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Looks okay I guess, some CGI looks good, some not so much.

 

[terry78]

I mean, if you flip through issues of the comic it's pretty accurate. It's just very weird.

 

[rogue trooper]

A very pretty looking trailer. I'm quite eager to check out the comic before I see the film.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Some of the creatures look fake but the landscapes and ships and other things look f***ing jawdropping.

It would be great if it all looked more realistic but I'm willing to give them a little leeway here since there are so many bizarre looking aliens in this film. At least none of these shots screamed "obvious green screen" like half the stuff in the Justice League trailer.

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

This doesnt look "right". Something is off. I can't say what. Could be the cast, could be dialouge, could be something else. Visuals looks great, but two trailers and nothing hooked me to see it.

For me it's the leads, they just don't work as Valerian and Laureline, these actors aren't good in the roles. Cara isn't good at all but that's just me.
Otherwise, the visuals are fine and do justice to the source.
I will see it in theater anyways.

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

A very pretty looking trailer. I'm quite eager to check out the comic before I see the film.

They are many volumes. If I had two to recommend, The Ambassador of Shadows and On the Frontiers, from memory, they look close to the feel of the movie ( based on the trailer ).

 

[Doctor Jones]

This just looks awesome. I'm really looking forward to this. There's also stuff here I'd love to see in a SW movie.

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

The trailer's got flashes of what made The Fifth Element so great, but for the most part I get Jupiter Ascending vibes from this.

Completely agree.

 

[MadVillainy]

This is going to bomb. But I think it looks cool

 

[Lobo]

I'm getting John Carter vibes. I loved John Carter, though. So...

 

[moviefreak]

Lots of The Fifth Element in that trailer. Not surprising as Jean Giraud (Moebius) & Jean-Claude Mezieres worked on and provided some materials for the Fifth Element. Mezieres was the artist for Valerian comics. Been a while since I have read their comics.

That trailer looked marvellous --I'm sure that I'll be thoroughly entertained.

 

[Drizzle]

This is going to bomb. But I think it looks cool

Without a doubt. It'll get buried by Dunkirk, War for the Planet of the Apes and most likely even Spider-Man in its third weekend. But yeah, it looks ambitious to say the least.

 

[Lasirius]

I'm down for this, creatures have an odd design seemingly out of place. Hopefully, it does well; I like Besson.

 

[Guts]

I don't know how accurate it was to the comic but there was also an anime ten years ago.

 

[Marvolo]

“Valerian” Is France’s Most Expensive Film

French filmmaker Luc Besson’s EuropaCorp label is betting big on his upcoming sci-fi epic “Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets”. VERY big in fact.

CinEuropa (via The Playlist) reports that the project, a 100% French production, has come in at a final price tag of 197 million Euros, which equates to USD$210 million.

That’s on par with the most expensive films in the “Transformers” and “X-Men” franchises, and makes the ambitious graphic novel adaptation officially the most expensive to have ever been produced and made entirely in France – that’s before marketing costs are added in. The previous picture to hold the top slot in France was “Asterix at the Olympic Games” which cost $82 million to create.

Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevingne, Clive Owen, Rihanna, Ethan Hawke, John Goodman, Herbie Hancock, and Kris Wu star in the wild looking film which opens in cinemas on July 21st.


http://www.darkhorizons.com/valerian-is-frances-most-expensive-film/

This comes out July 21st...

July 7 - Spider-Man Homecoming
July 14 - War for the Planet of the Apes
July 21 - Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk
August 4 - The Dark Tower

Valerian is ****ed. At least in the U.S.. It's sandwiched in a heavy hitter month in blockbuster season.

 

[MadVillainy]

Yeah that was a smart decision

 

[Kane52630]

They should have moved it up to next week, Free Fire and The Circle would have been their only competition. That way they get two good weeks at the box office before Guardians show up.

 

[MadVillainy]

even releasing it next week spending $200+ million on a property like this is stupid

 

[Drizzle]

They should have moved it up to next week, Free Fire and The Circle would have been their only competition. That way they get two good weeks at the box office before Guardians show up.

It would have still been destroyed by Fast 8.

 

[Kane52630]

ah that's true.

 

[chamber-music]

even releasing it next week spending $200+ million on a property like this is stupid

It is Besson's passionate project. Even if it flops I don't think Besson would be too upset because he finally got to make the movie he wanted to.

If it does flop I hope it doesn't tank EuropaCorp

 

[Goonie]

“Valerian” Is France’s Most Expensive Film



This comes out July 21st...

July 7 - Spider-Man Homecoming
July 14 - War for the Planet of the Apes
July 21 - Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk
August 4 - The Dark Tower

Valerian is ****ed. At least in the U.S.. It's sandwiched in a heavy hitter month in blockbuster season.

May, June, July are all busy months with Blockbusters each weekend August, September would have been better for this

 

[terry78]

Nowadays even August is kinda cramped.

 

[Goonie]

Nowadays even August is kinda cramped.

For someone like me this August, September sucks & I see no reason to head to the movies for those two months as anything I might wanna see I can wait for Im in no hurry since October, November, December will be busy so I dont mind taking two months off from the movies like this month only movie Im seeing in theaters is Fast 8 anything else I can wait