Luc Besson will adapt the comic science fiction “Valerian” – Europe1

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The director confirmed that the adaptation of the cult comic “Valerian” was well in the pipes. © AFP

Susie Bourquin

This is a project we thought buried . In fact Luc Besson had only set aside. The director confirmed that the adaptation of the cult comic book Valerian was well in the pipes, as he had already suggested in 2012. The author of the 5th Element has formalized its project on networks Social and unveiled a part of the cast.

What is it? Valerian, Valerian its original name, spatiotemporal agent and eventually renamed Valerian and Laureline is a series of comic-strip science fiction that must scriptwriter Pierre Christin and artist Jean-Claude Mezieres. This legendary series, published by Editions Dargaud in the 70s, recounts the adventures of two agents of “Galaxity”, the capital of the Terran Galactic Empire. Their mission? Travel in space and time to maintain order in the universe earthling. The ingredients of a movie that we imagine easily directed by Luc Besson.

Cara Delevingne heroin. The actress and model Cara Delevingne English will be the heroine of this next achievement, alongside US actor Dane DeHaan. This became known including The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Both slip into spacesuits heroes of the comics.

The global output has already been announced EuropaCorp, the film studio of Luc Besson: it will wait until summer 2017.