How VFX Supervisor Conjured Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
The first time Scott Stokdyk worked for Luc Besson back in 1995, the French auteur hired him to work on his then-groundbreaking sci-fi flick The Fifth Element. “At that time I was just this computer artist sitting at a work station for fourteen hours a day in a little dark cubicle excited to be working in the world of film,” says Scott. Since then, visual effects have made gargantuan advances, and so has Scott.
Watch the Wild Trailer for Luc Besson’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne star in director Luc Besson’s hallucinatory sci-fi Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, which The Fifth Element director has been hankering to make for years. The new trailer shows Besson is once again right at home in the colorful, kaleidoscope world of Alpha, a city far out in space where DeHaan and Delevingne’s special agents are sent to try and uncover the dark forces gathered in the intergalactic megatropolis and what they’re up to.
Director Luc Besson Returns to Sci-Fi Form With Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is based on a French comic book series written by Pierre Christin and illustrated by Jean-Claude Mézières, which is just about the perfect source material for director Luc Besson. The Fifth Element director is a man who thinks weird is good (and so do we) and has been dreaming about making this film for years. With this new trailer, we finally have a peek at what he’s been dreaming up.
Director Luc Besson Makes 1st Comic-Con Appearance to Talk Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
French director Luc Besson made his first-ever Comic-Con appearance to talk about his 2017 release, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. Presented with Comic-Con’s highest accolade, the Inkpot award, he insisted on handing it back — temporarily. “Let me show you some of the film, and then you can decide if I should keep this,” he told the crowd of over 6000, which was soon roaring its approval.
