>The comic follows spatio-temporal agents Valerian and Laureline as they travel the universe through time and space. Titled Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, the movie is visually stunning (as seen in the trailers) and features over 200 different alien species, so it’s no surprise that Valerian has become France’s most expensive film to date.
>Cineuropa shares that Besson’s new sci-fi adventure was made on a €197.47 million budget, according to a report published by CNC in 2016, making it the most expensive production in French film history. The number one spot was previously held by Asterix at the Olympic Games (2008) with a €78 million budget – an adventure-fantasy film which, by the way, received the “Gérard du cinéma” for “Worst French film made in 2007”.
Why do the french want one of the biggest blunders of all time?
Looks like shit, luc besson fucking biggest fraud since Roland emmerich
Jace King
wot
Brandon Flores
Can't wait to watch this in theaters
Lincoln Howard
It looks incredible, but I guess it better for $250 million. I don't think it will do well sadly.
Jordan Sanchez
I take Valerian when I have to go to sleep.
Liam Ortiz
If this was made by James Cameron it would make a billion at least. There'd probably also be a new tripfag that's obsessed over it
Justin Hughes
I wonder if Dane still posts here.
Ryan Gutierrez
>french
Adam Sanchez
Holy fuck this is gonna flop so hard.
who approved of this in the first place
Daniel Rodriguez
i love the incestual vibes between the two siblings
Kevin Jones
>Cara Delevigne
disgusting, I probably would've given it a chance too if I didn't have to watch that ugly talentless whore on screen
Josiah Harris
Would you rather have these 2 in the lead, or Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence? Or Sam Worthington and Zoe Zaldana?
Kayden Reed
this has got Bogdanoff written all over it.
Wyatt Ward
im guessing it's just a creative accounting project
>$250 million >for 2 B-listers and a green screen
Matthew Powell
The leads aren't very interesting. Looks neat though.
Easton Stewart
>who approved of this in the first place
Jeremiah Richardson
not enough quips
Ethan Gray
...
Noah Cox
isn't that the question of the day actor is fine
them forcing Cara as a real actress now is lame as fuck though
Alexander Wilson
Absolutely savage
Brandon Smith
Will it save space opera genre? I want to believe.
Gabriel Hill
WHO THE FUCK LET THESE KIDS ON THE SET?
Holy shit is there some kind of fucking Kids Next Door right inside Hollywood? Is there some Animaniacs secret agency right inside the Warner Brothers tower? How the FUCK do these talentless parentless kids keep getting on the movie set? Are they homeless or what? They look like they haven't slept or ate properly in over in a year.
Nathaniel Cook
It's going to bomb so fucking hard besson will commite suicide
Feels bad, it looks like cool sci-fi
Nicholas Thomas
Yeah, but just like Jupiter Ascended it's going to be a mess of talentless actors and horrible script writing and directors who can't direct worth a shit.
Jonathan Evans
The choice of lead actors is down right laughable. Too bad it seems like it could have been great.
Wyatt Price
>Jupiter Ascended Not that guy but the movie had great ideas,suffered from incompetence and poor choice of lead.
Lincoln Myers
>wolf genes or some shit >grows wings what the fuck, man
Dominic Sullivan
>"destiny is within your hands" >two leads acting like self absorbed nitwits at a certain point, a story has to make some sort of connection with plausible reality. >from a graphic "novel" ummmm......yeah.....
Bentley Sanders
It looks like Jupiter Ascending and that's a good thing.
Nah he's pretty cool, just hit and miss.
Tyler Richardson
>time flies when you're having fun
Owen Moore
But it really wasn't half-bad. In fact, if you just eliminated Kalique (the female Abrasax) and combined Titus and and Balem Abrasax, this would be a very concise and well-put together "chosen one" story.
I did think some of the humor from Jupiter's awe of being "thrust into royalty" got really trite, and the chemistry between her and Caine wasn't exactly given enough time to become believable, but the movie was visually beautiful to look at and all of the actors performed competently given what character types they were supposed to be.
Particularly, I found Eddie Redmayne's maniacal totalitarian with mommy issues to be very well-done, a superior attempt at Javier Bardem's similar character in Skyfall. And the space battles were fucking glorious to witness in theaters. But you could actually see what was going on throughout them unlike similar movies which have trouble keeping the objects of importance in the frame for longer than a second.
I give it 6/10, maybe a 6.5. Not as good as Cloud Atlas, but the Wachowskis have proven themselves capable of making an entertaining, immersive fantasy movie yet again.
Nolan Reyes
>great ideas Perhaps, but after most of them were already used in Matrix and Cloud Atlas they were already kinda stale. Wachowski seem to be really struggling with not ending up as one trick ponies.
Blake Rivera
Great palette of colours and interesting organic environments, but the designs of the cities aren't that great. If they wanted Avatar numbers, they should have shown more naturalistic areas.
Ethan Long
>Valérian was created by Mézières and Christin as a reaction to the fearless boy-scout (e.g. The Adventures of Tintin) and American superhero characters that were prevalent in comics available in France at the time. Instead they sought to devise a "banal character" with "no extraordinary means of action".[7] Eventually, with Christin feeling that they had gone too far with this angle and that the Valérian character had become too stupid... this would have been a perfect role for Seth Rogen.
Austin Torres
Visually and from the design point of view it was astounding. Now, if only there was a less cliche plot to go with it. I haven't read Valerian. But I hope Yuropoor capeshit is less formulaic than Murrican.
Ian Robinson
Just part of the shoehorned teen love story.
Oh I agree completely even though I cant comment on cloud atlas since I haven't seen it yet. The whole immortality as a currency was really well played in my book.
Are you working on something new? They kind of went under the radar after their sex change or whatever.
William Robinson
Can I have, dare I say it, a quick rundown on these two?
Justin Scott
>Are they working* Sorry about that
Jonathan Phillips
how about a run back to pleddit with your shitty forced meme
Asher Phillips
What?
Anthony Sanders
Calm down autismo
Joshua Nguyen
Same old action adventure sci-fi with great visuals and effects but that's pretty much it.
Jack Johnson
I will not be silenced again. There is no artistic value, we are letting this generation of degenerates ruin any standards, morality and value we ever had for this world.
Don't you want it to end? Aren't you tired of it all?
Logan Ortiz
Who is this for exactly?
It looks like Jupiter Ascending 2
Levi Wood
>Cara Delevingne >Dane DeHaan >Rihanna No, just no.
Nicholas Gray
Try reading the metabarons for euro comics, its one of the best comics I have read.
Owen Martinez
im hyped
Caleb Ramirez
Are they siblings? Do they fugg?
Adam Murphy
I'm pretty sure they're just sticking with Sense8, which is a really well-made show despite some obvious politics at play.
Cameron Kelly
...
Carter Edwards
Cara actually does have tits though
Anthony Jackson
Delete this
Oliver Price
weird choice of leads in a big action blockbuster
Brandon Edwards
>space opera >boring leads >no eddie redmayne-esque performance to save it
dead on arrival
Josiah White
Why do normies hate Dane Dehaan? He's a legit good actor.
Anthony Mitchell
her lips are lewd
Connor Williams
>AMS 2 >Cure for Wellness >This
Liam Price
Ohh man, i hate that cliche chorus showing at the introduction of the movie.
So is this another stupid movie about "mah diversity" in the space, and how a pair of annoying assholes save the universe saving some weird ancestral shit...or something?
Joshua Richardson
>So is this another stupid movie about "mah diversity" in the space
What was the first
Blake Wright
The budget has got to be some tax evasion horseshit, there's no way they could have blown that much on it. I'll watch it when it's out on BD, seems kinda fun.
Gabriel Morgan
This looks great. I am hype but not sure about the leads.
Alexander Nguyen
This. >MMXVII >giving Besson any sort of a budget to make films He is like the French version of the Wachowski freaks.
James Bailey
Needs a higher res
Cooper Watson
Abator
Robert Thomas
>Don't you want it to end? Aren't you tired of it all? Hi Jack.
Lucas Cruz
Looks like it will be a great movie. No idea if I am going to watch it in cinemas though.
I wish I knew more about the source material to get hyped but apparently this is what inspired Star Wars and many other sci fi stuff
Jason Foster
Maybe if they budget went to advertising the movie then more would be interested in seeing it ay?
When does this come out? This year? And if it wasn't for Sup Forums I would have never known this movie exists...
Blake Clark
>Rihanna One of the hottest humans ever born is going to be in this?
YESS
Thomas Morales
Dane DeHaan is one of my fav actors no joke. Why do people hate him?
He seems like one of those actors that actually tries to be serious and not just a quip character in what he does
>yes because green goblin is such a serious role But it was?
>Slowly dying >wants his friend to help him find a cure
Blake Myers
kys
you cry because of Lucy? more specifically because of the "10% usage of the brain" gimmick?
Ethan Parker
>Carlos Delevigne
cant wait for the belly dance scene. kino.
Ethan Miller
Cameron probably had a stroke and lost his mind. When did he made something godd last time? Jurassic Park. Yeah. Avatar? no.. that sold itself only bc the 3D and now he want a franchise with that crap! he clearly lost it.
Carson Perry
...
Jonathan Young
>He doesn't believe in the 10% usage of the brain theory SAD
Tyler Morales
>Cameron >Jurassic Park What?
Oliver Richardson
>I found Eddie Redmayne's maniacal totalitarian with mommy issues to be very well-done, a superior attempt at Javier Bardem's similar character in Skyfall. > a superior attempt at Javier Bardem's similar character in Skyfall.
Jace Johnson
...
Noah Price
...
Brandon Hill
Am I faceblind or do they look like siblings?
Carson Young
Are they not in the movie?
Nathaniel Thomas
IIRC they kiss and talk about boning in the trailer, so I don't think so. If it's wincest this is a must watch.
Joshua Myers
>High budget >Definitive flop >Imaginative direction >Fun cast and action >Quirky uniqueness
Future cult classic in the making. Damn shame it's going to flop.
Thomas James
I will never understand Sup Forums's hateboner for Cara
Also what the fuck is wrong with captcha???
You have to fill out like 10 images now
Sebastian Bennett
Ah the eyebrow that can poke you in the eye if you look at it wrong.
Dominic Howard
How do I meat a girl like Cara Delevingne?
Dominic Perry
>features over 200 different alien species
This is a kind of dumb thing to say. What they mean is "you see 200 different costumes in the flick because we let our designers go nuts and didn't call for any consistency between designs".
200 alien species might as well be 0 alien species because if you never elaborate on what makes them different from us, they might as well be humans in fancy hats.
Adam Rivera
Skyfall sucked.
Luke Foster
Nope. Their whole schtick is that Valerian is a womanizer and Laureline is a cocktease. They flirt endlessly but she never puts out.
Full cast, by the way.
>Dane Dehaan as Valerian, a corageous, womanizing and cocksure agent protecting the space-time continuum.
>Cara Delevigne as Laureline, a virginial and resourceful agent protecting the space-time continuum. Valerian's longtime partner and object of affection.
>Clive Owen as Commander Arün Filitt, Valerian & Laureline's superior officer.
>Sam Spruell as General Okto Bar, the military leader of of Alpha, the "City of One Thousand Planets".
>Rihanna as Bubble, a mysterious and seductive shapeshifting nightclub singer from Alpha.
>Ethan Hawke as Jolly, a cyborg pimp who sponsors Bubble.