It was destined to be a blockbuster that was going to launch an important franchise, and was ultimately a huge failure at the box office… This Wednesday, December 21, 2022, TF1 is broadcasting Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, teleported by Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne and directed by Luc Besson . It is one of cinema’s biggest failures in recent years.
After the great success of Lucy Released in 2014 (the film with Scarlett Johansson was a particular success abroad and became the biggest French hit at the global box office), Luc Besson tackled a slightly different project in 2017. He decided to adapt the comic Valerian and Laureline by Jean-Claude Méziere and Pierre Christine. A good idea on paper…which turned out to be an interstellar fiasco.
The most expensive French film ever…which flopped completely
With Valerian and the City of a Thousand PlanetsLuc Besson was able to give free rein to his writings and his dreams as a director. It has to be said that to make this Dane DeHann and Cara Delevingne movie, the Frenchman had to see (very) a lot: A budget of 197 million eurosmake it The most expensive French film ever. Ambition was fine…but the result was utterly disastrous.
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Firstly because of the feedback from the critics, not very positive about the movie which showed some strange scenes. Upon its theatrical release, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets So it was a colossal failure: despite its 4 million admission in France, It only made $225 million worldwideWhile he was…
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