Luc Besson To Direct ‘Valerian’ In Return To Sci-Fi Roots

Deadline Hollywood reported on this but you can check out Besson's Twitter page for news and reaction.

 

I'm a Fifth Element fan so this is exciting news but the male lead....?

 

http://deadline.com/2015/05/luc-besson-valerian-movie-europacorp-1201425149/

by Patrick Hipes May 12, 2015 8:11am

Has Luc Besson found his next Fifth Element? The producer-director just revealed that he is set to write and direct Valerian, an adaptation of the iconic French sci-fi graphic novel series from writers Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mézières that first appeared in 1967. Dane DeHaan (The Amazing Spider Man 2) and Cara Delevingne (Paper Towns) will star, Besson tweeted today — his first postings on Twitter:

 https://twitter.com/lucbesson/status/598140891048488960/photo/1


DeHaan and Delevingne will play Valerian and Laureline in the adaptation of the original story, which centered on a pair of spatio-temporal agents who help defend a utopian 28th century Earth and its neighboring planets from bad guys, with the pair’s adventures rooted in space opera and time travel themes not so much unlike Fifth Element, Besson’s seminal 1997

 

Virginie Besson Silla will produce Valerian on behalf of EuropaCorp, which will finance, produce and distribute, The film is set to begin production at year’s end with a summer 2017 release planned.