Valerian - the city of a thousand planets

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Movie
German title Valerian - the city of a thousand planets
Original title Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Country of production France
original language English
Publishing year 2017
length 138 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 12
Rod
Director Luc Besson
script Luc Besson
production Luc Besson
music Alexandre Desplat
camera Thierry Arbogast
cut Julien Rey
occupation
synchronization

Valerian - The City of a Thousand Planets (Original title: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets ) is a science fiction film by the French director Luc Besson , who also acted as the screenwriter and producer of the film, with Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne in the Leading roles. The film is based on Valerian and Veronique (original title: Valérian et Laureline ), a French science fiction comic series by Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mézières , the first story of which was released on November 9, 1967. The film was released in German cinemas on July 20, 2017, almost 50 years after the comic series was first published.

action

Alpha is still a small space station in 2020 that emerged from the ISS , but is quickly becoming a large, orbiting complex, inhabited by space travelers from all nations on earth. In the year 2150 the first aliens join them. The station soon reaches a critical mass with new attachments and docking ships, which influences the earth's force field, which is why it is sent with thrust engines towards the Magellanic clouds .

400 years later on Mül: The tropical ocean world with its blue lagoons and white beaches is inhabited by gentle beings called Pearls, ageless humanoids . They live in harmony with small four-legged animals, which, as transmutators, are able to multiply the pearls that the pearls collect on the planet when fed with them. One day their idyll is destroyed when huge explosions appear in the sky and burning spaceships crash onto the planet. When a roller of fire swept over Mül, only a few manage to protect themselves in one of the crashed spaceships, all other planet dwellers die in the disaster. The daughter of the emperor sends her life signal into space when she dies.

Thirty years later, on board a spaceship: Major Valerian receives signals from Mül that he cannot classify; even the ship's computer cannot determine it. He and Sergeant Laureline are specialty agents with the Government of the Human Territories charged with maintaining law and order throughout the universe . You work out of Galaxity, the capital of Earth and the Terran Galactic Empire. The young major is aiming for more than just a professional relationship with his beautiful partner, but the self-confident Laureline considers him a selfish womanizer and gives him the cold shoulder when her Valerian makes romantic advances.

By order of the ministry, the two law enforcement officers go on a mission with their spaceship Intruder , which can also travel through time and has the artificial intelligence Alex. You are supposed to look for a transmutator from the planet Mül on the planet Kyrion, which is the last of its kind. Before the mission begins, Valerian proposes marriage to Laureline, which she does not take seriously. On the desert planet there is a huge, virtual bazaar which is located in another dimension and which is bustling with activity. However, you can only see it with a special helmet, while without its help you can only see the desert. Valerian has to find the transmutator there in a labyrinth of thousands of levels and finally frees it from the clutches of a fender who wants to sell it to two surviving Pearls, but then changes his mind. However, this operation is nowhere near as smooth as the agent had planned. His special equipment, with which he can jump back and forth between different dimensions, has a defect. The military unit that came to support is gradually killed, and Laureline has to help Valerian, who at least managed to secure the animal and a pearl, whereupon they both flee with their spaceship. Valerian discovers that there are twenty megatons of energy in the pearl he brought with him. He also recognizes the pearl and the transmutator: He met the two of them in a vision that he had shortly before the start of the mission, but the location of the origin of the ship's computer Alex could not determine.

Valerian and Laureline bring the being to the four-star General Commander Arün Filitt in the interstellar city of Alpha, which is now 700 million miles from Earth. The mega-metropolis is now home to thousands of different extraterrestrial species from all corners of the universe. Many millions of them are humans and allied species speaking 5,000 different languages. They have all combined their technologies, resources, talents and knowledge for the benefit of all. However, the future of Alpha seems to be in danger, because Valerian and Laureline learn of a radioactive zone in the center of the city, about which Commander Filitt wants to report to the Security Council. Unobserved by them, the Commander visits a secret laboratory in which a Pearl is being held and unsuccessfully interrogated. The subsequent meeting of the Security Council is stormed by a group of Pearls who paralyze everyone and kidnap the commander. Valerian pursues the kidnappers until he disappears from the surveillance screen of the control center. A telepathic jellyfish helps Laureline try to track her partner down, but when she finds him, she herself falls into the hands of a group of Boulan-Bathor. However, Alex, the spaceship's artificial intelligence, has a plan for how to free her. He attends the show of Bubble, a shapeshifter who works as a quick change dresser at the Glammer Club on Paradise Alley, and can convince her to use her skills to get into the area of ​​the Boulan-Bathor, where their exotic delicacies-obsessed emperors are currently tries to eat Laureline's brain. Together they kill some of the Boulan Bathor; while escaping from the palace, Bubble is fatally injured and dies in the arms of Valerian.

Valerian's visions lead the two into the alleged death zone of Alpha, which is actually a secret protection zone for the Pearls and where they encounter a group of Pearls with a spaceship. Their emperor tells them about the destruction of their planet and that it was the people who were to blame for the death of six million of their kind, including his daughter Princess Lïhio-Minaa. It was Arün Filitt who commanded a spaceship in the battle over their planet and had Fusio projectiles fired, which brought the enemy spaceship fleet to crash on the planet Mül and destroyed it. The Pearls, who were able to save themselves on a partially destroyed spaceship, subsequently appropriated the language and knowledge of the people. Their spaceship was collected by scrap dealers and taken to the Alpha construction site, where they could use their knowledge to build a new spaceship. In order to be able to put this into operation, however, they lack an energy source, for which they need the pearl and the transmutator. They wanted to buy this from the fence in the bazaar of the planet Kyrion when Valerian intervened with his order. Valerian now hesitates to give the Pearls back the transmutator and the pearl from their planet, but Laureline can convince him that this is the only right decision. In their spaceship, the Pearls can use the pearl and the transmutator to create a simulation of their destroyed planet. The Queen releases from him the soul of Princess Lïhio-Minaa, who had fused with him during Valerian's vision.

The military operation to recapture the "Rote Zote" is under way. The commander, who is held captive by the Pearls, admits that he knew about the residents of Pearl, but he still ordered the attack to win the war. In retrospect, he deleted all information in order to prevent sanctions for humanity. He succeeds in activating his K-Trons, the combat robots of his bodyguard. After a deadly battle, the Pearls can launch their spaceship. Valerian and Laureline escape the attack on the spaceship and are released in space by the Pearls in a small escape pod. General Okto Bar manages to arrest the Commander, who is left behind on Alpha. Laureline finally answers Valerian's marriage proposal after they have become closer in the course of events, after a short, gag-rich conversation with a kiss and a "maybe".

Importance of the comic template for the science fiction film

Even though the science fiction comic series Valérian et Laureline by Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mézières , which was based on Valerian - The City of a Thousand Planets , inspired a number of science fiction films , George Lucas is the creator from Star Wars , never discussed any adaptations. Some style elements and figures of the comic book series have similarities with those of the Star Wars film series, so similar to the slave girl outfit, wore the Laureline in an adventure from 1972, the costume of Princess Leia Organa in Return of the Jedi from 1983. There are other similarities between the Millennium Falcon and drawings of a spaceship in the comic series, and some aliens had proboscis on their faces and fur on their skin. The first story of Valérian et Laureline had appeared in 1967, Star Wars , the first part of the Star Wars series, celebrated its premiere in 1977. The French comic book series was completely unknown in the United States for a long time.

production

Staff and funding

Director Luc Besson

The director took Luc Besson , who is also the screenwriter and producer of the film. According to his own statements, Besson had wanted to film the comic model for many years; the director would also like to shoot sequels should the opportunity arise. Besson read the internationally successful French comic series Valérian et Laureline by Jean-Claude Mézières and Pierre Christin , which appeared from 1967 to 2010, at the age of ten and, according to Besson in interviews at Comic-Con 2016, he was with the two main characters closely connected since then. For the director, the filming of the comic series was therefore a matter close to his heart for a long time, but for years Besson thought it was impossible to film the comic book. However, when he saw the film Avatar - Aufbruch nach Pandora in the cinema, he was convinced of the opposite according to his own statements and only afterwards believed in a faithful implementation of the material. James Cameron's technique was the most important basis for the film adaptation of the comic book series. The film was ultimately based on several comics from the original, but the main part of the plot comes from Ambassador of the Shadows , whose setting is the huge space station conglomerate Central City. Other motifs come from the volumes In the Kingdom of a Thousand Planets and Welcome to Alflolol .

In 2012 it was finally announced that the film would be put into action, which was later confirmed by Christophe Lambert , CEO of EuropaCorp . On May 12, 2015, Besson confirmed that he would be directing and screenwriting the film and also announced the main cast of the film. The film was co-financed by BNP Paribas , Orange , Gulf Film, River Road Entertainment, Belga Films, TF1 Films Production , Fundamental Films and Universum Film . At the end of August 2015, Besson said in a radio interview with RTL that it was very expensive to shoot the film in France. Because the film was shot in English, no tax breaks were granted, even if the film had created 1,200 jobs in France. Besson had also offered Mezieres to work as the film's concept designer. As a cameraman, Besson was able to win Thierry Arbogast , who has been nominated several times for the César and with whom he had already worked for the film The Fifth Element . This was also inspired by the comic series Valérian et Laureline .

For an approximately 18-minute action scene, Besson enlisted the help of the students at his film school in Paris, the École de la Cité, which he founded in 2012. They created a demo version of this scene, which was then shot in the film studio with the real actors.

Cast and dubbing

The main characters Valerian and Laureline are played in the film by Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne The main characters Valerian and Laureline are played in the film by Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne
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The two main characters Valerian and Laureline are played in the film by Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne . Besson compares the two characters with Mr. & Mrs. Smith in space, who quarrel and move through a crazy world in their spaceship. Clive Owen has played Commander Arün Filitt and Sam Spruell has played General Okto Bar. Ethan Hawke has played Jolly the Pimp, and Kris Wu plays Sergeant Neza.

Other roles are taken on by John Goodman (voice of the fighter Igon Siruss) and Rutger Hauer (President of the Earth Federation). The film also features Diva Cam as Mâatri, Eric Lampaert as Thazzit, Roman Blomme as Boulan Bathor, Yun Lai as Valley Chinois, Andrew Tisba as a Kortan Dahuk and Marion Roussignol as a Pearl. Furthermore, have Benoît Jacquot , Mathieu Kassovitz , Alain Chabat and Herbie Hancock in the movie cameo appearances . Louis Leterrier , a filmmaker friend of Besson, also has a cameo as a Kortan Dahuk in the film. The Kortan Dahuk are a gentle, technologically advanced race that was the first to come into contact with humanity.

Rihanna has a role as the shapeshifter Bubble in the film. According to her own statements, Besson cast her not because she can sing well, but because he was convinced of her talent as an actress. Rihanna appears as a shapeshifter in a bar run by Ethan Hawke in the film, and then helps Valerian free his partner from the clutches of the Boulan-Bathor.

The German dubbing was created based on a dialogue book by Christoph Cierpka and Tobias Neumann by the dubbing company Scalamedia under Cierpka's dialogue direction . Valerian is voiced by Constantin von Jascheroff and Laureline by Maximiliane Häcke . Tom Vogt took over the synchronization of Arün Filitt and Martin Kautz that of General Okto Bar.

Filming

The Cité du cinéma in Saint-Denis

Filming began on January 4, 2016 in the Cité du cinéma in Saint-Denis , in the north of Paris, and ended on June 3, 2016 after 91 days of shooting. Originally, 115 days of shooting were scheduled. The total production costs are said to amount to 180 million US dollars, making the film the most expensive European production ever, also in comparison to the film Cloud Atlas with production costs of 100 million US dollars, one of the most expensive German productions to date.

The film was not shot in 3D and also without a 3D camera, as Besson has now considered the conversion process to be good enough to produce this effect by post-processing the material and there are certain restrictions in the staging of the film in 3D rotate. Most of the aliens, Besson estimates the proportion at least 90 percent, were played by real people, but the recordings were often post-processed on the computer .

Because Besson was very impressed by the spaceship Intruder (in German intruder ) - also known as the Astroship XB982 - from the comics, he attached great importance to its special role in the film. Here , according to Besson, the Intruder acts like a third main character and a being that Valerian and Laureline have to take care of and repair because without the spaceship they would be lost in time and would have to continue their journey on foot. The Intruder was first introduced in the comics in 1969. The intergalactic spaceship was made in China in the early 2700s and enables Valerian and Laureline to travel through time and space to star systems more than 100 million light years away. The Intruder is equipped with a supercomputer called Alex and was programmed with a sense of humor.

Some of the footage was filmed from the third-person perspective , as we know it from video games, such as an action sequence with Valerian who is doing a parkour run through a sector of the Alpha space station while on a chase.

The story of Valerian - The City of a Thousand Planets extends over 24 hours, the birthday of the film heroine Laureline, whereby the film has a running time of two hours and 15 minutes.

Film music

The French composer and Oscar winner Alexandre Desplat took over the work on the film music. The recording took place on February 24, 2017 in Studio 104 of the Maison de la Radio in Paris. Desplat conducted 95 musicians from the Orchester National de France from Radio France and 49 singers from the Chœurs de Radio France . From February 20 to 28, 2017, the Maison de la Radio, which houses the French radio station Radio France, also held concerts in which pieces composed by Desplat were played, including excerpts from the music for Valerian - The City of a Thousand Planets . These concerts were broadcast on the station's morning show.

The soundtrack album consists of 36 tracks on 2 CDs and was released by EuropaCorp on July 21, 2017. The first CD contains mainly songs by well-known musicians, but also the song I Feel Everything by actress Cara Delevingne . This song was released as a single along with a music video in July 2017. Delevingne made her debut as a singer with the song. Besson's niece Alexiane contributed the song in the credits of A Million on My Soul , with which a trailer for the film was already underlaid. The second CD contains large parts of Alexandre Desplat's film music.

Marketing and Publishing

In March 2016, five photos were published that showed , among others, Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne during filming and also contained a picture of K-Tron, a robotic police officer who Luc Besson described as unimportant for the plot and only the multitude of characters should clarify who appear in the film.

In April 2016, at the same time as the MTV Movie Awards were presented , a behind-the-scenes featurette was presented, in which, in addition to the two main actors, Rihanna can be seen in her role and short excerpts from the shooting were shown.

On July 21, 2016, Besson and the two main actors presented the first moving images with a total running time of seven minutes at the Comic-Con in San Diego. Sven Pfizenmaier from Moviepilot reports that the four scenes shown were received by the audience with unbridled euphoria.

At the beginning of November 2016, a first trailer for the film was released, which was backed by the Beatles' song Because . A first German movie poster was presented at the end of March 2017. At the same time a first long trailer was presented. The film celebrated its world premiere on July 10, 2017.

In Germany, the film is awarded by Universum Film . The television rights are owned by RTL Television . The film was released in German cinemas on July 20, 2017, almost 50 years after the adapted comic series was first published; a day later it hit French and US cinemas. After an eight-week break for foreign films, Valerian - The City of a Thousand Planets hit Chinese cinemas on August 25, 2017. Even if the film was not shot in 3D, it can be seen in 3D. Universum Film wants to release Valerian - The City of a Thousand Planets in November 2017 on Ultra HD Blu-ray.

reception

Age rating

In the US, the film was rated PG-13 by the MPAA . In Germany the film is FSK 12 . The reason for the release states: “The film is very visually powerful and contains some fast-paced action scenes . However, acts of violence are mostly shown from a distance and are staged without blood. Therefore, there is no need to fear excessive demands from viewers aged 12 and over. In terms of content, the film deals with topics such as the abuse of power , war and peace , ecology and civil rights . For children from the age of 12 it is clearly understandable that the film advocates values ​​such as peace, love and equality with regard to gender roles . "

Reviews

After journalists at the Comic-Con in San Diego four scenes of the film were shown, Angela Water Cutter said of Wired , Luc Besson's latest work look fantastic and was a movie, the dream of science fiction fans. The film is exactly what Hollywood needs right now. Watercutter also highlights the magical acting performance of Cara Delevingne and the mostly wonderful weird actor Dane DeHaan .

Bilge Ebiri from The Village Voice says that the film is primarily optically brilliant, but one shouldn't pay too much attention to the story or the characters. Ebiri is particularly impressed by the beaches shown and the huge mussels that are scattered in the neon blue water.

Peter Debruge of Variety says, imagine the creativity of Besson, the one a crazy environment and stunning computer-generated alien figures, the unevenness of the film leave forgotten. This is designed in such a way that the viewer is driven from one cliffhanger to the next, which works well, even if it doesn't give you a clear idea of ​​what the duo's mission actually consists of.

Andreas Borcholte from Spiegel Online says that with the film, the director is offering a stunning visual alternative to US blockbuster cinema and that he knows how to cast a spell over the viewer, which is reflected in the beach idyll of the indigenous Pearl people right at the beginning of the film show on the alien planet. Besson subordinates the most exotic environments and creatures to the casualness of his rapid plot and lets his heroes jump back and forth between virtual reality and real action, which is as virtuoso as it is cocky, because such images have never been seen in the cinema. Borcholte says about the film's title that it is misleading because it is not Valerian but Laureline that is the actual star of the film and says about Cara Delevingne that she is proving to be the perfect choice for the role of a daring and sarcastic, but also gentle heroine.

Lars-Olav Beier writes in the mirror that Valerian looks like a sweet bonbonniere that keeps pouring sweets into the audience. Director Besson gets lost in his infinite universe; the film consists largely of hidden objects . “The director is a man with admirable vigor, but without a plan.” On the other hand, Beier points out that 20 years earlier Besson had made The Fifth Element, a film for which he was ridiculed at the time. Beier: “Today the film is cult. There is a price to be paid to being ahead of the times. But also its charm. "

Gross profit

The film hit the box office in a number of countries after its release, including France, Russia and Poland. In China, where the film also reached number 1 in the box office, it grossed 28.9 million US dollars on its opening weekend. In Germany, the film recorded 228,011 visitors on the opening weekend. With that he entered the cinema charts in second place. The film recorded a total of 1,057,689 visitors in Germany (as of February 25, 2018).

The film's worldwide revenue from theatrical screenings was approximately $ 225 million. With production costs of around 180 million US dollars, the film fell well short of expectations.

Awards

On December 4, 2017, it was announced that the film was in the shortlist of 20 films, from which the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will determine the nominations for the 2018 Academy Awards in the Best Visual Effects category . On December 18, 2017, it was announced that the film was on the shortlist with 10 films in this category. The following list contains a selection of the most famous award ceremonies.

Annie Award 2018

  • Nomination in the Character Animation in a Live Action Production category

European Film Award 2018

Saturn Award ceremony 2018

Teen Choice Awards 2017

continuation

In autumn 2016, Besson spoke specifically for the first time about a possible continuation of the film. If the film gets through with the audience and proves to be a success, says Besson, nothing stands in the way of one or more sequels.

Besson then completed the script for a second part before it even opened in the cinema, and he also started the script for a third part.

After the bad box office result, there were no more reports regarding a possible continuation; this seems unlikely.

Web links

Commons : Valerian - The City of a Thousand Planets  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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