Luc Besson

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

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

Since relase of Taken in 2007 we all were waiting for news from Luc Besson regarding the sequel. Shooting, in all senses, gets underway in October. There were a lot rumour about replacing Liam Neeson with Sean Bean, Mickey Rourke, Ralph Fiennes, Ray Winstone or Jason Isaacs, but now officially comfirmed that original cast will back. Luc Besson has once again written the script in cahoots with Robert Mark Kamen, and Megaton, who directed the Besson-produced Transporter 3 and Colombiana, will...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

Learning from Movies: The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec : If you’ve never heard of The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec , it's a 2010 period adventure from Luc Besson, don’t feel bad. It only got a limited release in the United States. Based on a graphic novel series by Jacques Tardi, U.S. publisher Fantagraphics describes the series on their web site: Both a rip-roaring adventure series set in pre-World War I Paris and a parody of same, Adèle Blanc-Sec has been...Read Full Story

ComingSoon.net Universal to Distribute Luc Besson's Science Rooted Thriller; Angelina Jolie ... Fused Film 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 ... Angelina Jolie and Luc Besson Thriller Lands at Universal Hollywood Reporter Agelina Jolie-Luc Besson Project Goes to Universal Reuters Angelina Jolie and Director Luc Besson To...Read Full Story

Luc Besson came to prominence as the writer/director responsible for some of the most iconic French films of the Cinéma Du Look period including Subway , The Big Blue , Nikita and Léon . His career faltered with the release of The Fifth Element , the overblown and unhinged Sci-Fi saga starring Bruce Willis. Since then his output has been largely hit and miss, concentrating his efforts more as a writer/producer for the action oriented Taxi and Transporter franchises. Besson recently returned...Read Full Story

A new trailer for Luc Besson’s biopic The Lady , starring Michelle Yeoh as the Burmese opposition politician Aung San Suu Kyi, has debuted online and it is a must watch. Also starring in The Lady is David Thewlis who will play has her husband, Dr. Michael Aris. Besson is known for his action fare like The Transporter films and his most recent Colombiana , but he isn’t known for his dramatic films. So this is an interesting choice from the director. But by the looks of this trailer, The Lady...Read Full Story