“Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets” is filmmaker Luc Besson’s wild imagination brought to life. The film’s primary set piece is the thing in the title that’s not Valerian, and ...

With a reported budget of $180 million, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is decidedly of the battleship variety, but this Luc Besson movie, about a cocksure 25 th-century government ...

A Star Wars nerd dives into the Valérian and Laureline comics to discuss just how influential the French series may have been on the Star Wars saga. If you’re a Luc Besson fan, you’ve likely ...

Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne in "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets." If you’re going to call your sci-fi movie “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets,” you’d better be ...

On the 20th anniversary of space opera "The Fifth Element," it's become clear how much it shares with Besson's latest passion project, "Valerian." Luc Besson was born to make “Valerian and the ...

Twenty years after The Fifth Element, director Luc Besson returns to sci-fi cinema with the vibrant, imaginative, but wildly uneven Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. Valerian's romantic ...

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is a case study in what to avoid when trying to establish a sci-fi universe. At first glance, the comic-inspired sci-fi action flick from Lucy director ...