Luc Besson has revealed that there will be a wide range of aliens in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets and explores themes of diversity.
Luc Besson
Besson is set to return to the director's chair for the film, which is part of the Comic-Con line-up in San Diego. We have already been treated to the first image from the film and footage been causing excitement at Comic-Con.
Besson says that this is not an 'aliens are the bad guys' movie and compares working with different races to working with different countries.
Speaking to Screen Rant about the film, the director said: "What's interesting for me here is we are humans dealing with thousands of different kinds of aliens, 8,000 to be precise, and the world is pretty nice. I mean, they exchange science, art, commerce... I mean, they do deals together. So, it's not like 'Boo! The aliens are like, the mean guys.'
"It's kind of like a reflect of who we are today, you know. We have American and French and Albanian and Greenland, and you know, like we're all different, but it's the same except that it's different races in the galaxy."
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is the first film for Besson since the success of Lucy and sees him pen the screenplay as well as direct.
The movie sees the director team up with Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne - who take on the central roles of Valérian and Laureline - for the first time.
Clive Owen, Ethan Hawke, John Goodman, Sam Spruell, and Rihanna complete the cast list.
City of a Thousand Planets is released next year.
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