Luc Besson revisits sci-fi in new film project
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French master going back to the future...
Director Luc Besson is joining Ridley Scott's return to the science-fiction genre with a new untitled project that will be his first foray into SF since The Fifth Element in 1997. Interviewed by radio station Europe 1, Besson said that he was already designing 'creatures'. He described the project as 'The Fifth Element to the 10th power', but made no indication that it will have any narrative connection with that film.
Cinefantastique note how heavily Fifth Element was influenced by the French Metal Hurlant magazine in its 1970s heyday, but, in my opinion all those Moebius-like influences had long been filtered into cinema by Ridley Scott in Alien and most particularly Blade Runner, leaving Fifth Element as a protracted exercise in comedic imitation. I've always wished that the superb design and visual effects of Fifth Element had been used in a better movie. Perhaps a science-fiction remake of Klute...?
The untitled project is scheduled to shoot between 2012 and 2013 with a tentative (and pretty vague) release date of 2014.
2014. Shouldn't the world we live in look like the above picture by then?
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