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Netflix Luc Besson Films Netflix remains hard at work in its attempts to produce everything.

Franchise scribes Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen, and director Olivier Megaton, zig and zag gaily through the happy - family set - up to begin with.

Its current venture, it seems, is to get the French filmmaking giant Luc Besson to direct and produce several Netflix Original movies over the next few years.

Rather, it is a relatively - bombastic remake which brazenly lifts a few of From Russia's pivotal plot points while crediting Luc Besson and Adi Hasak for the screenplay.

Did Luc Besson get his groove back?

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James Luxford: The teaser has landed for Luc Besson's film about a drug mule who acquires extraordinary powers.

Luc Besson's Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets could also be a good bet.

Now in theaters is Luc Besson's Lucy, starring Scarlett Johansson as Lucy, a woman caught in a dark deal who ends up gaining incredible powers when a drug gives her 100 % brain capacity superpowers.

As stalagmites of gooey black nanotechnology ooze from Lucy's body and the film begins to feel like a glossy version of Akira (only one that wouldn't dare infringe on the beauty of its star), Luc Besson's vision for the film finally comes into perfect focus: this isn't just the story of a woman who realises the full potential of her brain, it's also the story of a filmmaker remembering the full potential of his genre.

Regardless of the quality of the surrounding film, Luc Besson can still be counted on for at least one moment per movie that does what he does best: blending high - concept, stylish stupidity with rock - solid action beats.

Filmmaker Luc Besson knew that this percentage figure was inaccurate, yet plunged ahead with his inventive adventure, revolving around a naïve young American named Lucy (Scarlett Johansson) who gets tricked into delivering a mysterious metal briefcase to a Taiwanese crime boss, Mr. Jang (South Korean actor Choi Min Sik), and forced to become one of his drug mules.

Lucy is the new sci - fi thriller from Luc Besson.

Plus, Universal hands out a summer 2014 release date for Luc Besson's Lucy.

Opening July 25, the AWFJ Movie of the Week is Lucy, the latest action movie from writer - director Luc Besson, best known for The Fifth Element, La Femme Nikita and The Professional.

Three Days to Kill is directed by McG (This Means War, Terminator Salvation, Charlie's Angels) and written by Luc Besson (Taken, The Transporter) and Adi Hasak (From Paris with Love).

The story, by Luc Besson («The Professional»), bites off more than it can chew, and it requires «Taken» levels of disbelief to excuse carnage that our government would surely have to answer for on a public stage, but the acting performances elevate the material from «predictable» to «predictable but fun.»

I can't get over Luc Besson making the so - called smartest woman on Earth wear spike heels to a gunfight.

Luc Besson's science - fiction adventure springs to life in Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos on a screen near you.

* 1/2 / **** starring Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevingne, Clive Owen, Rutger Hauer written for the screen and directed by Luc Besson

«The Lady» (Toronto — no current US distribution) Michelle Yeoh and David Thewlis could land in the thick of the this year's acting races in a hurry if a studio bites on this Luc Besson take on activist Aung San Suu Kyi and her husband Michael Aris.

Directed by: Luc Besson Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Amr Waked Running Time: 1 hr 35 mins Rating: R Release Date: July 25, 2014

Few bad movies are more aggravating than a sequel that betrays everything which made its predecessor entertaining.The B - movie, wild - ride brilliance of 2002's «The Transporter» stemmed from the filmmakers (producer - writer Luc Besson, co-writer Robert Mark Kamen...

Well, it looks like you can now add director Luc Besson to the growing list.

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In her audition for writer - director Luc Besson, we catch glimpses of Portman's budding skill.

Like driving a Ferrari for the first time, according to Luc Besson.

And with «3 Days to Kill,» the veteran actor appears to be taking a page out of Liam Neeson's playbook by headlining his very own action film, also co-written by «Taken» scribe Luc Besson.

It's as if the screenwriters watched only Luc Besson films for an entire week, squeezing in viewings of «Passenger 57» and «Flightplan» when they could, and came up with this incredibly absurd concept as the basis for a thriller.

The Scoop: 1997 PG - 13, directed by Luc Besson and starring Milla Jovovich, Bruce Willis, Ian Holm and Gary Oldman.

Luc Besson's epic sci - fi adventure earned accolades for revealing its first footage at San Diego Comic - Con 2016, drawing comparisons from some of the Screen Rant team to it being the closest thing to a Mass Effect movie.

LUCY Starring: Morgan Freeman and Scarlett Johannson Directed by: Luc Besson A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.

Jet Li (The One), Luc Besson (The Fifth Element) and Louis Leterrier (The Transporter 2) have collaborated in Unleashed to create a seamless action movie that succeeds in almost every department.

This may be a retread of «Ex Machina,» but considering that was a brilliant film, that's no knock on «Morgan,» which looks to be a mix of Alex Garland's thriller, Luc Besson's «Lucy» and an especially engrossing episode of «Black Mirror.»

Written by Luc Besson and Michael Caleo.

(There are more than a few shades of Luc Besson's classic La Femme Nikita here, and Jung makes sure to reference one of that film's more memorable scenes, when Sook - hee must interrupt a romantic moment by going into a bathroom, assembling a sniper rifle and taking a shot at her assigned target.)

Directed by Tommy Lee Jones; written by Guillermo Arriaga; director of photography, Chris Menges; edited by Roberto Silvi; music by Marco Beltrami; produced by Michael Fitzgerald, Luc Besson and Pierre - Ange le Pogam; released by Sony Pictures Classics.

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Mirren will also co-star alongside Cillian Murphy and Luke Evans in Luc Besson's next film Anna.

Luc Besson's 1991 «La Femme Nikita» remains the best of these types of thrillers and offers rousing action sequences, as well as a compelling journey, for its female protagonist.

Luc Besson's Scarlett Johansson sci - fi action pic «Lucy» will hit $ 44 million on its opening weekend, officially making a bankable star out of Scar - Jo, Avenger, hip indie film queen, now bodacious babe of the... Continue reading →

BAFTA nominated Luc Besson («The Fifth Element», «The Transporter», «Taken», «District 13») has directed and written this thrilling sci - fi flick about the hypothetical limitlessness of the human mind.

It's a feast for the eyes and imagination, but there's two major flaws to Luc Besson's sci - fi epic based on a French comic book.

It's the great French vulgarian Luc Besson's Tree Of Life, pondering existential questions about God and the universe while still having a hot chick in high - heels and mini-skirts shooting the shit out of everybody.

Directed, scripted by Luc Besson.

His features include Alex Cox's Sid and Nancy; Stephen Frears» Prick Up Your Ears; Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead; Phil Joanou's State of Grace; Oliver Stone's JFK; Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula; Tony Scott's True Romance; Bernard Rose's Immortal Beloved; Luc Besson's The Professional (a.k.a. Leon) and The Fifth Element; Wolfgang Petersen's Air Force One; Ridley Scott's Hannibal; Albert and Allen Hughes» The Book of Eli; Daniel Espinosa's Child 44; and Matt Reeves» Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.

JBg: This film actually started more as an homage to LA FEMME NIKITA: It was kind of me going back to the shock of watching it for the first time when I was 10 years old, and it expresses my respect for the director Luc Besson.

Other titles in the future include Luc Besson's No Limit, crime saga Penoza, Line of Separation (from the producers of The Lives of Others) and Hotel Adlon.

Even so, Luc Besson's incredible epic burns its way into your retinas.

«Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets» Luc Besson and a thousand bad decisions.