'Valerian and the
City of a
Thousand Planets' features Comic-Con's nuttiest aliens yet
SAN DIEGO — Seeing new and original things at Comic-Con has become increasingly rare. With
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets — Luc Besson's sprawling sci-fi passion project that's exactly a year from release — it's all new.*
And it looks interesting, expensive and possibly spectacular.
Set deep into the 2300s,
Valerian is a weird, alien-infested space epic based on
Valérian and Laureline, a French comic book ****** created in 1967 that follows a pair of government special operatives in space. Most of the film takes place on Alpha, a clustered community of thousands of species living in relative harmony.*
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