Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
The first trailer for Luc Besson’s new film, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, has just come out, and it looks pretty awesome. He’s best know for the hit sci-fi movie The Fifth Element, and Valerian seems to have a similar vibe. You can read a bit more about it on Gizmodo’s Io9 article.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqtH4-ehgE0
The trailer does look awesome, and Luc Besson is a guaranteed hit in my book, but…
it’s not enough to have the “Valerian” character have black hair.
Because that is about everything this film has in common with Mézières’ and Christin’s fantastic ”Valérian and Laureline” comics. Likely a few familiar names will crop up in dialogue, but despite that (or rather, because of it) I think it will be the first Besson film I will not watch.