Luc Besson

PamelaCortes: Watching Luc Besson's "The Professional" with @ALEXBASTERI @gerislas @fabiolamnaudeRead Full Story

After spending the last five years directing a trilogy of animated films based on the Arthur et les Minimoys books and a serious political drama with The Lady, French director Luc Besson is finally returning to the genre that we’ve all been hoping for: science-fiction. Okay, so he’s not directing this one himself, but it’s still hard not to be at least a little bit excited by the prospect. The last time he worked with this kind of material himself was in 1997 with The Fifth Element, a movie...Read Full Story

Just under a week ago, we reported that Angelina Jolie was in talks to join Luc Besson’s next movie . And while she isn’t even 100% sure she will be signing on, we do know that she is the current frontrunner to star in Besson’s next dramatic-thriller with true science scientific elements. That’s how secretive it is, we don’t even know what the movie is about, just that the premise is science related. Now comes word, from Deadline, that Universal has just bought the rights to distribute the...Read Full Story

After helming this year’s In The Land of Blood and Honey , her debut as a director, Angelina Jolie is already lining up for her next project. But this time as an actress. According to Deadline , Jolie will be joining Luc Besson’s untitled thriller, the film would be Jolie’s next as an actress, and it would come before she teams with director Ridley Scott on a historical epic about Gertrude Bell that The Constant Gardener scribe Jeffrey Caine is currently rewriting. The report adds that the...Read Full Story

Geo436: There are several actresses who can boast the title of “Former Luc Besson Badass Leading Lady,” including Anne Parillaud ( La Femme Nikita ), Milla Jovovich ( The Fifth Element , The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc ), and Zoe Saldana (the Besson-scripted Colombiana ). Even Michelle Yeoh, the starlet of Besson’s new historical biopic, The Lady , can arguably boast as much. It looks like Angelina Jolie is going to become the latest in a long line of Besson’s “muses”; the Oscar...Read Full Story