A few years ago, Luc Besson was going to retire, and indeed he did take a bit of a break from directing, but he never got over the filmmaking bug, writing and producing all sorts of movies, and more recently directing the likes of The Lady and Adele Blanc-Sec. Now he’s planning another movie, an adaptation of the French sci-fi comic, Valerian.
Created by Pierre Christian and artist Jean-Claude Mezieres in 1967, the graphic novels are about a time-travelling agent and his female sidekick, Laureline. Besson is obviously a big fan of Mezieres, as he hired him as a conceptual designer on The Fifth Element.
There’s no news on when Valerian might shoot, or indeed if it’ll be an English-language project or not. Besson is going to be busy for a while, as he’s currently gearing up to film Malavita, with Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer starring. (Source: Variety)