The Panel of Valerian and the city of a thousand planets Luc Besson has just ended, and here's all the information that was revealed.
You are not supposed to ignore that Luc Besson, the brilliant French director who already has to his credit the excellent Leon, The Fifth Element or the trilogy Arthur and the Invisibles is conducting Valerian and the city of a thousand planets, adapted from french comic Valerian and which purports to be the Star Wars french.
And from 22h, the panel of the comic-con helped reveal no wrong information on the film due out July 21, 2017 with the presence of the director, Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne. Luc Besson began the conference by presenting Americans the license Valerian telling that it is a license that greatly fond of since he was 10 years, she has 29 volumes and that it is with the author, Jean- Claude Mezieres he developed the universe of Fifth element. And while Mezieres asked for years to realize Besson's adaptation of his work, it is after watching the Avatar movie that the director finally took the decision to do so.
Once the history of Valerian and his creation revealed Besson unveils arts concepts of the film in particular showing how it has implemented the comic film. He then reveals that two-thirds of the film will take place on Alpha, the city of a thousand planets. The film begins with images of real space filmed in 1975 and will happen in a fiction that all nations of the earth come together in a unique space station. In 2100, the aliens arrive and start to join the space station / city growing and in 2300, the Alpha station is so large that it will have to move away from Earth. It is entirely composed of skyscraper that rises to heights never seen before. The film will take place in 2700. The Gaslamp Quarter is where there are creatures living in the gas. The wife of Luc Besson, also producer of the film says that Alpha moves like clockwork, each piece in a specific movement.
About the characters that make up the film, Besson speaks first of KC02, an alien who looks a bit like a robot, but is actually a gas-based creature in a containment suit. Creative teams of the film have made a large batch of alien who each possess a culture of its own. Many have a humanoid appearance, but one of the characters looks like a small yellow frog and another a giant skeleton. An alien character all chubby and cute to be called Da, since it's the only thing he can say.
Then comes the moment that everyone was waiting for. Luc Besson unveils the sequences of the film, one which shows an underwater sequence with huge insects that look like whales. And the first notice fall quickly and show a very ambitious film. The art concepts include not just aliens, but also all kinds of spaceships which one of them is a huge shopping center space. And yet, the images shown in the comic-con was not completely finished. But generous, Luc Besson unveils 7min film that capture the entire room that takes full view in the first opinion on the Internet. Site Coming Soon said about Valerian: "Wow, Valerian to look great He clearly a mood 5th element, but at a greatly expanded scale".
Then, the first images of Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne in their metal costume appear before finally show Laureline to get arrested, but easily managing to take down his attackers. At the conference, DeHaan says Valerian is a film "Space Bro" that could result in a fraternal space movie as was the series of Almost Human J.J. Abrams. It will then be on her character describing him as someone who thinks the coolest of the universe, but that is nothing without Laureline.
Other images show a chase scene through the desert between a bus chased by a creature similar to a giant lizard and also a scene in the film Red Lights in the neighborhood where Ethan Hawke appears as the eccentric owner of a sort burlesque show. Valerian demand something "retro". He sits in front of the stage. A dancer emerges in a cabaret style bowler hat and when he turns to the camera, we see that it is played by Rihanna. Another shows Valerian who needs to get somewhere quickly. Laureline remotely guide, but its indications lead right before the wall. She told him "You wanted the shortest route is not it?". Valerian active headphones on his costume and load directly through the wall. He runs straight through the levels on which you can see spaceships.
The conference ended, the people in the room could ask questions to the panel. Luc Besson declared so it was not inspired by the character of Leeloo for Laureline while Delevingne reveals that the film will take place over 24 hours.
Now it only remains to wait for the first images that were unveiled at the SDCC to get a true idea of ??the work of Besson and his team.
