If you’ve never heard of the French sci-fi comic Valerian and Laureline, then you’ve missed out on the stories that have proven to be influential on Star Wars, The Fifth Element, and space opera tales for over five decades. This summer, director Luc Besson is fulfilling a longheld dream by bringing Valerian and Laureline to the big screen with Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. For the film, Valerian will be played by Dane DeHaan, while Laureline will be portrayed by Cara Delevingne.
On Free Comic Book Day, Besson and DeHaan made a joint appearance at Meltdown Comics in Los Angeles to promote the Valerian FCBD reprint and the upcoming feature film. Among the topics that came up were Besson’s first Valerian and Laureline comics, the relationship between the two main characters in the film, and the first-ever team up of ILM and Weta on this project.
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On Free Comic Book Day, Besson and DeHaan made a joint appearance at Meltdown Comics in Los Angeles to promote the Valerian FCBD reprint and the upcoming feature film. Among the topics that came up were Besson’s first Valerian and Laureline comics, the relationship between the two main characters in the film, and the first-ever team up of ILM and Weta on this project.
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