Al festival di San Diego il regista parla diffusamente del suo nuovo film, basata sulla storica serie di fantascienza francese a fumetti:
As director Luc Besson and his wife Virginie Besson-Silla laid out in meticulous detail a vision for “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets” — based on the French comic series “Valerian and Laureline” — their passion for the heavy genre material was certainly palpable. But it was difficult to ignore the specter of other attempted franchise launches from respected filmmakers that crashed on… “Basically I grew up with it,” Besson said of the source material, which was created by Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mezieres in 1967 and has since sold more than 10 million copies in 21 languages. “It was just not possible [to make a film version]; it’s 10 percent humans and 90 percent aliens!” Though the mountain seemed unscalable, Besson nevertheless secured…
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