British actor Clive Owen (The Knick) is set to star in Luc Besson’s big-budget sci-fi film Valerian, based on the graphic novels by Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mézières first published in 1967.
Dane DeHaan (Chronicle) and Cara Delavingne (Paper Towns) will also appear in the film, which reportedly has a budget of around $180million and will see Owen play a character called Commander Arün Filitt
Besson has been working on the script for the film for many years, but “started again” after he saw Avatar and decided he had things to change because of it. Production is expected to get underway next year.
Valerian is set for release in 2017.
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Originally published August 21, 2015. Updated April 13, 2018.
