Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
In the yard of the 28th century. Valerian and Laureline are an excellent team of agents. Their path lies on Alpha, the ever-expanding City of a Thousand Planets, where different civilizations have exchanged knowledge, experience, and culture over the years. Valerian and Laureline's job at the Ministry of Defense is to maintain order wherever there are people. In the center of Alpha, strange events begin to happen, which are the fault of dark forces. The existence of the City of a Thousand Planets is in danger, and therefore the universe is in danger. Valerian and Laureline must find the threat and destroy it, or millions of innocent individuals of various species will suffer. Read more The film is based on the series of comics "Valerian and Laureline" by Pierre Christine and Jean-Claude Mezieres. This is already the second adaptation of this work after the 2007 French animated series "Valerian and Laureline". The film is directed by Luc Besson. He is known for such projects as "Leon" (1994), "The Fifth Element" (1997), "Angel-A" (2005). The main roles in the film went to Dave DeHaan and Cara Delevingne. Dave previously starred in the films The Place Under the Pines (2012), Metallica: Through the Impossible, Kill Your Loved Ones (both 2013), and Cara participated in the projects Paper Towns (2015), Suicide Squad (2016). The film also starred: Elizabeth Debicki ("The Great Gatsby" (2013), "Agents of A.N.C.L." (2015), the series "The Night Manager"), Ethan Hawke (4 Oscar nominations, including 2 for "Best Supporting Actor" for the films "Training Day" (2002) and "Youth" (2015)), Clive Owen (nominated for an Oscar for "Best Supporting Actor" for the film "Intimacy" (2014), the films "Sin City", "The Price of Betrayal" (both 2005), "Not Caught - Not a Thief" (2006)), as well as the singer Rihanna. The film will be released on July 20, 2017.