What is Valerian and Why it's the MOST Important Sci-fi

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>>87689337

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>>87689403
https://www.instagram.com/lucbesson/

>>87689337
Why do you sound like a shill? This movie will be shit, you know.

>>87689488
on what level? worse then Star wars or even worse that Star Treck?

>>87689523
>the movie is still filming
>OP already says it's better to SW or ST
0.10 $ have been added to your account.

>>87689337
I thought that was Quicksilver.

>>87689337
I'm not watching anything with this awful troll in it. She's literally kind of gross looking and unattractive, can't act, and has a really shitty personality in real life.

>>87689585
The girl? She looks butch, yeah.

>>87689337
Dane Dehaan has a good face for Orion, if only he could get buff.

>>87689488
I think they are being """ironic""" shilling. Like when /tv/ says a movie will be ____kino.

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Valerian?

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>>87689777

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>>87689777
Dragons came from space

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This isn't a comic book?

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>>87690328

yes sweety. and they fucked blonde virgins to make kings.

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>>87689337
>blond hair
>black eyebrows
???

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>>87689337
She really is unattractive in that fascinating way only supermodels can be. Like, I want to look at her the same way you want to look at modern art.

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>>87691264
thats all. i thank the scan.guys for their great work. i hope they will get filthy rich, marry the wife of Trump and buy own filthy-righ-yacht where they will served my clintos daughter.

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Now the son of a cocksucking bitch, who is a janitor here can finally ban me again for posting on /co.

I grew up with this comic, love it.
Can't wait for the movie.

Thanks for sharing the comic

>>87689337
This movie looks aggressively generic.
Also, wasn't the book about time traveling police or something fucking stupid like that?

Uhh Comics & Cartoons?

>>87692114
>movie is 99 percent CGI
honestly does it count as live action if the only non cgi is the actors heads?

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>>87689337
>those fake ass graphics
>LE EPIC FILTERS
>LE SLOW MOTION
>Le power grrrrl
>Le fake hype

Only reason Fifth Element was any good it's because it's a blatant rip off on Moebius/Jodorowsky comics

Luc Besson was never a "visionary" on anything and his movies mostly suck. Or else you think the Taken movies and Taxi 2 were masterpieces.

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>that obvious shilling
>samefag giving it 11/10 already

/tv/ was right all along

Expect "Top 4567 reason you should watch this shit" on every single memester site.

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>>87692234

why do i read your pathetic excuse of being shit in his voice?

https://youtu.be/PEJ7HJUeTEE

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>>87692390
>same guy almost died laughing at Paul Blart trailers

Pretty sure his opinions are trustworthy.

>>87689337
Thank you for the comic anon.

I'm ok with the actors as long as the movie doesn't suck too much.

>>87689337
the trailler is exciting. The world is so colorful and beautiful.

>>87689593
>I'm not watching anything with this awful troll in it. She's literally kind of gross looking and unattractive, can't act, and has a really shitty personality in real life.

I don't get why she keep getting roles when: she can't act and ugly

>>87690346
It's a movie based on a comic book

>>87692146
Moebius worked on,,,as in, got paychecks from...Besson's 5th Element.

>>87689337
>Crushing on a dirty carpet muncher
you do realize there is absolutely no point in that right? She literally would never find you attractive

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>>87691325
For this movie to succeed, I really hope they don't take such a naive and clumsy script as I just read. My goodness, I could blame the time this comic was released but I've read more serious shit way older than this.
Nice drawings tho.

>>87689337
I couldn't watch that. It was giving me scabbies

>>87689337

>These fucking Youtubers

Jesus fucking Christ I'm sick of normies and their "nerd chic" bullshit.

i love her eyebrows

>>87689337
What is this, and why is Zac Efron wearing a crown?

wow Id never expecting someone to beat DC and Marvel in terms of shittenes

>>87689337
Looks like dog shit. All visuals and absolutely no substance what so ever.
A studio exec saw how popular GotG was and blew his load on this garbage.
It'll be the next John Carter.

why she look like Dane DeMan?

>>87701686
Also, they're really fucking themselves over by advertising that its by the same guy as Lucy because that movie was a fucking joke.

>>87689337
Pissed that they cast that ugly cunt. She's awful.

>>87689337
Who is this dude ? I would bang him.

And yeah, as Valerian's comic reader, I can tell this movie is gonna be shit. I mean, come on, emo Harry Osborn and a fucking no-read head Laureline ? You screwed up Besson, you screwed up really baaaaad...

I know some guy working in special effects, said he'd seen it and it looked cool.

>>87701905
Of course it "looks cool".
That's the only thing it does.

>>87701938

>Not wanting Fifth Element 2

>>87689337
I thought that was Daniel Radcliffe at first, but now it looks like if Radcliffe and Orlando Bloom did the fusion dance from DBZ.

>>87702101
Just like everyone wanted Independence Day 2

>>87702111
It ain't as fat as them so I'd fuck it.

>>87689758
Bad one for Valerian though. Is this what whitewashing feels like when I don't like it?

>>87689461
Anyone know if they even tried doing the suits faithfully? If they tried and it didn't work out I'm a lot more cool with tactical black.

>>87702111
Radcliffe actually looks a bit like Valerian, much more than deHaan. Is either of them good at comedy?

>>87702662
Neither of them are good at anything.

>>87692146
>someone else hates filters and slow motion
THANK YOU.

>>87692146
It was also a ripoff of this one comc Mezieres did. Except Mezieres got paid so that wasn't a ripoff either. I think you can guess what the comic was.

>>87691278
Oh, I didn't realize they actually published this bullshit.

Frogs trying to cash in on the success of Star Wars in time for their own movie, topkek

>>87689337
Getting a Jupiter Ascending vibe from the trailer. This is gonna be a trainwreck.

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>>87692390
>reaction video

Why don't you go back to 9gag

>>87701686
Good and completely failed by marketing?

>>87704117
Come on man, movie had some nice visuals but Taylor Kitsch has the range of a 2x4

>>87703971
Are you saying that SF movies inspired by Mezieres and maybe a splash of Moebius are crap?
Shit, if they work in the Arzach parody this will be inspired by Moebius too.

...wait a second
>>87690304
>rules over thousands of planets
>clearly dozens of sentient species

>>87690370
>only in one single solar system

Which is it?

>>87692146
Leon is good

>literal shill OP
>up for 20+ hours

>>87689403
wtf why is did they cast the dashing male with that little froggy looking motherfucker?

>>87697192
The beginning of the series is a bit clumsy.
I'd suggest to begin with the Ghosts of Inverloch or Chatelet Station, two arcs that play on the time police aspect as well.

>>87689337
Looks better than marvel shit and Ghost In The Shell.

>Happy merchants rise up and overthrow religious fundamentalists
>They expect to take charge, but they accidentally inspire the underclass to rise up in rebellion themselves.

It's like they predicted the modern day Republican party.

>>87690398
Are there no blonde people where you come from?

>>87705234
No it doesn't.
It looks on par. Special effects with no substance.

>>87689337
Isn't that the question of the day?

>>87689488
Agreed, the comic isn't even that great, either. It is workmanlike genre BD. I think it is okay at best.

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Isn't Valerian supposed to be flawed and blockheaded, but also manly and charming? Why instead we got a young Justin Bieber wannabe babby who acts like an immature frat boy?

Isn't Laureline supposed to be independent and intelligent, but also charming? Why instead we got a grumpy grump grump who acts like someone pissed in her coffee?

The CGI looks pretty though (if a bit too Moebius-y)

>>87707165
The comic was pretty much Barbarella Lite.

It was aeons ahead of American sci fi comics of the time, though.

>>87690785
Valerian is cucked lol

>>87707259
If you want an actually interesting and well thought out science fiction movie your closest bet is killing yourself, because we don't get those anymore...

>>87707461
You see, if it would be just a random sci fi movie, maybe I'd be okay with two unlikable main characters, idk.

I'm just irked they're nothing like in the comics, AND unlikeable to boot.

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Judging by the trailer the movie has absolutely nothing to do with the "Thousand Planets" tome then?
Not that I mind, because it's one of the weaker anyways, but it's a really weird decision to use it as a subtitle then.
If anything it looks a like "Ambassador of the Shadows", which is pretty good.
Also it better have the Jewgouz.

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>>87707259
What's worse I think, is that in the comics I remember Valerian and Laureline being a passionately loving couple, if not without their problems.
Instead what we get is the same old, same old sex-negative trope of "man is a horny perv who only thinks of sex, woman is chaste and doesn't want any of that".
As >>87707488 said, if those were OCs, it could be fine, but not with Valerian and Laureline.

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>>87707259
>fucking white male
>dashing and manly
>in 2017
That's literally toxic patriarchal misogyny, you sexist shitlords.

>>87689337
I watched a few episodes of the cartoon of this and looked up some of the source material. It was okay and had great moments, but acting as though it's some genre defining groundbreaker is a little silly.

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You know OP, the only way for your movie to be decent is if people who never read the comic don't see it before the movie. I just did, and now the trailer looks like processed shit.

>>87692137
yes shut up

>>87703871
Are you trolling, cause this is primo bait.

>>87707981
not my fuck boi big daddy trumpalump in office

>>87704129
It's a 2 by 4 sort of story that I actually read in my teens, so I'm fine with that. I'm not saying it's good cinekino, I'm saying its a good popcorn movie.

>>87704362
Both.

>>87689523

It has the Aeon Flux-movie vibe to it. Trailer looks reasonable but theres a very high chance Hollywood just fucking butchers the source material entirely.

>>87708696
I think it's for filthy Yankees who don't even know the comic exists. That's why the title is "Valerian" instead of "Valerian and Laureline", because that's the name of the comic's American translation.

>>87708993
Well they've already butchered the main characters, so...

>>87708868
>these few already generic designs from our obscure french comic (that only just received an English translation) look kinda similar to a few designs from an extremely popular American movie franchise which was just reinvigorated
>now go see our new movie pls

>>87709039

True. The world looks okay, mix of Blade Runner and Ghost in the Shell. The movie could be a nice surprise like Dredd, or it could be an embarrassment like the Aeon Flux movie.

>>87709142
The difference is, Dredd did both the world and the main character spot on.

>>87707491
John Carter's syndrome

>>87706218
Not any more.

The rapes muggings and murders by migrants chased them all away.

>>87707491
>Jewgouz

5 results in google. None about this.

What is it, and where is it from?

>>87702101
>Fifth Element 2

will became lame. beside that the costs will be horrible high. literally they got support from many people because they used money and power of french state.

>>87707620
>sex-negative
It's called "progressive" nowadays, get it right

Are you cunts going to whine about progressives all day when you already got a snow white Valerian?
Ah fuck, de Haan might do a good job but Deleviegne is so horridly miscast she'll cry all the way to the bank after failing and getting grabbed by the pussy by Besson.

>>87709232

Not quite spot-on in the worldbuilding since they forgot the dark humor aspect of it. But its a good movie nevertheless.

>>87709727
>Are you cunts going to whine about progressives all day when you already got a snow white Valerian?
You say that like we're satisfied with Valerian's casting.

>>87709727
What's Valerian's ethnicity supposed to be?

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>>87709581
Shingouzs.
A species of dwarfish alien triplet spies. They will manage to find a buyer for anything. Their planet is a barren wasteland so it's the only line of work they have. Also exclusive alcoholics, since they can't take solid foods.
There's a running gag in one arc where they follow the heroes across planets, bartering in the background at every occasion, with increasing stake every time, ala One Red Paperclip.
tl; dr: Useful and likable joke characters.

>>87707981
Valerian has a lots of flaws, including some weakness for women and a strict adherence to protocol. I never heard anyone call the series mysoginistic, even if it makes fun of some aspects of feminism from time to time.
But I'm more worried about fiery Laureline becoming nothing more than the serious half of a classical hollywood duo. Fuck, half of the fun in the comics is the nuances in the relationship between the two heroes, and the resulting barter.

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some shit from history of creating this film..

COSTUME DESIGN CONTEST FOR LUC BESSON S VALERIAN

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>>87709949
Brown with a shingouz size nose. There still seems to be different ethnicities in Galaxity so it's not that everyone's mixed up. (selection for office seems to be not wanking in VR 24/7, early in that was less than one in a million, later Galaxity operated a warfleet)

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>>87709953
They look a lot like the trader guy from Phantom Menace

>>87709013
First few albums were called just Valerian.

I can't stand that chick. /tv/ seems obsessed with her. I don't get it.

>>87710030
It'd be much better if they found a manly brown actor instead of this babyfaced kid.

>>87689337
>Cara "i can't act for shit" delevigne
AH, no thanks.

>>87710148
B-but... it's also got Rihanna!

>>87709953
>A species of dwarfish alien triplet spies. They will manage to find a buyer for anything. Their planet is a barren wasteland so it's the only line of work they have. Also exclusive alcoholics, since they can't take solid foods.


So they're Scots, not Jews.

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>>87709727
>snow white Valerian
>A fucking twink instead of the athletic, square jawed DILF from the comics.
In a perfect world they would find a carbon copy of pic related, but honestly, I'd prefer a black actor with a decent facial structure and bodytype to DeHaan.

>>87710043
They fist appeared in the comic in 1975.

>>87710119
Yeah, dunno who specifically but dammit there's a big Jewish casting pool. And unless Deleveigne has a far bigger range than I think she'll play what I liked in Suicide Squad but is horrifically wrong for Laureline.

>>87710207
Yeah, I have nothing against either one of the actors but I look at the comic and I look at them and I'm basically "I can't fap to this." I mean, "this is bad casting."

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>>87710119
He could've been fucking Japanese for all I care, as long as he can be dashing and manly and goofy at the same time.

>>87690871
she definitely got fucked all night long

>>87710301
Yeah, just not a damn twink. Valerian is fucking tall, lean, absofuckinglutely not Hollywood huge but big enough to fuck you up and pretty huge in the suit.

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>>87710289
My biggest problem with Delevigne is that Laureline is supposed to be charming, not just with Valerian but it also helps her find diplomatic solutions and common ground with the characters they encounter. Delevigne plays some sort of somber and grumpy edgelord who just punches everyone in the face including Valerian.

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>>87710382
A couple nudes as examples.

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>>87710289

well. i heard they tried the "original colors" but Valerian looks then like a blood drained one and she looks like housewife. so they killed it all and went along with what fits best. not to mention neither of them looks really normandy atlets.

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>>87710329
It was always between the lines, but comic Laureline was most likely quite sexually open, in line with the whole sexual revolution that went on when the comic started.

>>87710531
Aww, look at the happy gay couple and their teenage son

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>>87710484
He honestly doesn't look very black or Middle Eastern here. More like Native American maybe

>>87710561

dude. they fucked officially kids, dogs and chimpanzees in France around the 70'ens. they stopped the shit first when a polacke became the pope and started new sexually ideology. which forced pedo prists to flee into USA or go underground church fuckery circles.

>>87710680
wut

>>87710463
Yeah. Laureline has seen some shit and if she has to she will fuck you up, but she's always had a positive outlook and she's all about smart solutions. Occasionally including putting some bitches down and never looking back.

>>87710649
Works for me. Mille East athletic is my primary choice but this guy is fine.

>>87710649

Valerian chara is the classic middle french stereotype. or so called "pariser douchebag". athletic with black hair and better social skills. the Loureline is typical Normandy girl. athletic fit naturally beauty with direct and direct character farmer-fisher girl forced to face more complicated world outside of her town or village.

btw its classic french chemes. you can find it in many french romance and comic books.

aren't they suppose to be a couple? why is she hitting him in the face when he tries to flirt with her?

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>>87710561
The comic was pretty subtle with sexuality in most cases. Implying a lot of things but often not showing much.

>>87710649
He's clealy whiter than the arabs he encounters, and manages to pass as a british grenadier in some adventure.
Your pic would have made an excellent choice, tattoos aside.

>>87710810
Besson.

>>87710848
Oh my.

>>87710804
Interesting, I'd realised Laureline because durp, evil dreams, but I always thought Valerian was intentionally le foreigner.

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>>87710705

"progressive europe of 60-70ens"

god damn motherfucker. did they even teach you modern history in the school at all?

>>87710850
Besson wants his waifu to stay pure?

>>87710848
Too lewd for 2017.

>>87710804
Interesting info, thanks. However, the actors still don't fit.

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>europa
ENJOY STRAIGHT TO THE BARGAIN BIN, YOU STUPID FUCKING KEK!

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>>87710945

i think he is good. beside that. the classical schemes washed out with time and urbanisation and immigration. Paris is capital because it literally on the border of north men land and south men land. btw. the scheme is very kicked in by the dofus creators. Iops are "typical normandians".

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>>87710810
Because instead of a charmful and sexually liberated adult couple of the comics, we're going to get a story about a sexually repressed girl who rebukes the advances of an immature frat boy.

>>87711108
So, the "typical Normandian" stereotype is something like "country bumpkins + Nordic + stronk + hot girls"?

>>87710897
Consider his waifu history.

>>87711108
How is literally 2011 Justin Bieber "good"?

>>87710029
>far right ones
the space-hostesses from 5th element

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>>87711209
http://www.thelocal.fr/20160104/a-closer-look-at-the-french-regional-stereotypes

>>87711209
I live in normandy and I've never heard stereotypes other than "inbreed", even from the neighbouring bretons. But I'm not a hot readhead myself, and who knows what goes inside of a parisian's mind, though.

On a sidenote, the authors spend something like a decade in the states during the '60s, one as a french litterature teacher in Salt Lake City, the other as a cowboy in Utah.

>>87711383
>the other as a cowboy in Utah.
Wat

>>87689337
I thought that was Frank Dillan.

She's a qt too

>>87711406
as in they herded cattle

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>>87711406
>manages to find a professional visa for industrial drawing
>fuck this, I want to be a cowboy.
>crosses the states without any kind of money
>becomes a cowboy
>makes a couple comics about it
>does illustrations for Children's friend, a mormon magazine
>also does a anti-segregation movie with Christin (the other author of Valerian) for the NAACP, called Ghetto.
>goes back to France and start drawing Valerian and other comics

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>>87711406
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_M%C3%A9zi%C3%A8res#Work_in_the_United_States

>>87711679
>>fuck this, I want to be a cowboy.

lets say he was on heavy drug travel at that time. working as cowboy made him much more money than industrial pencil pusher. beside that he was on some kind "fucking indian and texas girls" shit influenced by the wild west movies.

>>87711679
>>87711736
The 60s were a weird time, man

>>87711679
What a cuck

>>87689337
Sounds good

Is a comic any good?

>>87707620
Laureline looked flirty to me in the trailer.

>>87708696
It's John Carter all over again

>>87690398
And plenty of dudes have beard hairs in a different colour from their scalp hair as well. She probably lightened her hair either way, but you can easily be a medium blonde with near-black eyebrows/eyelashes/carpet without dye involved.

>>87718434
How? We see Justin Bieber trying to hit on her several times, while she either is indifferent or outright punches him.

>>87707620
>>87718434
>Valerian has more in mind than a professional relationship with his partner – blatantly chasing after her with propositions of romance. But his extensive history with women, and her traditional values, drive Laureline to continuously rebuff him.
from wikipedia

>>87709039
This trailer and descriptions we got say that they're the characters in name only. They replaced them with generic action movie character stereotypes.

>>87689337
who is that man and why does he have a crown?

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>>87721109
>her traditional values

>>87721507
That's Legolases father, he's the King of Elves

>>87707461
>anymore
You're making it sound as if sci-fi movies weren't always shit.
>m-muh Solaris
Exception that proves the rule.

>>87721679
Blade Runner and Alien were pretty good

>>87721512
It's current year, we can't have women behave in indecent ways, that's inappropriate.

>>87721707
Blade Runner is overrated.
Alien is a godawful horror flick on par with Friday the 13th.

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>>87710030
>>87710797
A lot of French guy characters have huge noses, that doesn't necessarily mean anything

>>87721109
>her traditional values
So, this is how it feels to be triggered... I wouldn't wish it on anyone.
The worse thing is, it will probably evolve into a standard romance subplot, where she falls in love with him mid-movie but can't admit her feeling until the final scene where they finally kiss.

>>87721679
Soylent Green, The Time Machine (1960 version), Bunker Palace Hotel...
Also Demolition Man and The Fifth Element if you like brainless action movies.

>>87722010
>The Fifth Element
Am I the only one who absolutely hated The Fifth Element? I don't know, it just looked so cheap and unappealing, and the characters were unlikeable. And I love Moebius and Druillet's comics, by the way.

>>87722010
>Demolition Man
>brainless
It's satire, it's far from being brainless. Next you'll be telling me Robocop is brainless too.
The Force Awakens is a brainless action movie, Demolition Man is not.
Just in case: mind you, I'm not saying those are super-deep masterpieces, just that "brainless" is not a good way to describe them

Pls storytime more.

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>>87722010
>The worse thing is, it will probably evolve into a standard romance subplot, where she falls in love with him mid-movie but can't admit her feeling until the final scene where they finally kiss.
Fucking this, so much hate.

Why is it impossible to just have two characters who are genuinely attracted to each other and can be flirty/passionate about it? You know, for a change

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>>87722071
Why do you need storytime when you'll soon have the MOST important Sci-fi Movie starring Cara Delevigne! and Rihanna!

>>87722010
>The worse thing is, it will probably evolve into a standard romance subplot, where she falls in love with him mid-movie but can't admit her feeling until the final scene where they finally almost kiss but get interrupted by something again or she kicks him in the balls or something, insert laughtrack
fix'd

>>87690286
Is there a cover or anything?

>>87722090
Because third act breakup. Creating needless tension and conflict without effort. And Besson isn't a good filmmaker, nor is he original.

>>87722071
http://readcomiconline.to/Comic/Valerian-and-Laureline/Issue-9?id=76180

Here, online scans. Issues 9 and 10 are a nice arc, beginning of the modern Valerian & Laureline, so you can start with those two.
I know we have mediafire links for everything except issue 12, I'll look for it and post them when I come back.

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>>87722198
Thanks anon

>>87722190
>Creating needless tension and conflict without effort.
It's like it's the only way to create tension and conflict in a fucking action-packed space opera espionage thriller.

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>>87721109
>her traditional values
They should of made Laureline a qt muslimfu

>>87722109
>Rihanna
Will she play as an humanoid or just d some voice acting for the CGI ayys?
Shingouz voiced by Rihanna

>>87708993
Good thing its not a Hollywood production then

>>87722198
It's not the right book though! If you've looked at the trailer surely you realize despite the title that they're adapting "L'ambassadeur des ombres".

I was watching the French animated series. I thought it was about some Time cop who picked up a chick in the medieval era and when he came back to his point in time Earth didnt exist anymore

This trailer doesnt seem to be about that at all

>>87693770
>It's a movie
>>>/tv/

>>87689337
its going to be shit. why is that? because everyone ripped the material and it has nothing new to show now. yes it has elements from fifth element, star wars, aliens etc but we already seen all of them.

>>87723021
They could use the time travel angle.
Can't think of anything that ressembles City of Shifting Waters, On the Frontiers or On the False Earths.
Heroes of the Equinox too, if you want a superheroes spoof.

>>87722787
The animated series already diverges quite a bit from the comic.

Basically, in the comic, the earth disappearance plot only starts in the last third of the series, and they find out reasonably quickly why it disappeared (God did it because he wasn't getting any royalties on his creation. You read that right.) and it's only the future earth they came from that disappears, replaced by a new timeline, our own, since the original timeline hinged on a nuclear war taking place in 1986 (as the first book had been written long before that).

Also, the girl being from the middle ages really wasn't a factor after the first story (and that story wasn't actually published in book form until much later).

The movie is based on "the ambassador of shadows", a book that happens long before earth's erasure, though IIRC the big multispecies space station it takes place in also is in the animated series.

>>87689337
>This movie is important
>You need to watch it

It's not and I don't. In fact, now I won't.

>>87724965
And then OP was a negative stealth shill.

>>87724965
>getting worked this hard

>>87707259
>>87707620
>>87710810
Because it's the lazy way to write strong independent female characters.

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>hypercompetent serious action grrl
>with a bumbling immature male partner
>who has an unrequited crush on her
Wow... such a groundbreaking innovative twist! What a welcome change from the comic characterizations. Luc Besson is a genius

>>87727075
I know. The lead duo is the only consistent thing with the comic, the only thing that the fans care about, and they trow it out of the window.
And we can't even blame it on meddling studios, since it's EuropaCorp producing it.

Truly glorious.

>>87689337
>Cara Delevingne will never dress up like Enchantress and belly dance for you while you masturbate

>>87722716

Doesn't mean it can't follow the Hollywood "blockbuster" formula. Which if it does, its going to fail and hard. Valerian is like a mix of Flash Gordon and Doctor Who, not Star Wars or some epic space opera with evil empires with giant space lasers.

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>>87722525
She plays a shapeshifting space stripper, apparently with a preference for generic and unsexy outfits

>>87727075
Tbf Valerian doesn't Stoppable in the trailer. But he doesn't operate either so meh.

>>87721109
>>87722010
>"It's a boy and a girl. They have fun, they love each other, but they don't want to say it. He's a puppy — he's watching all the girls, and she's very old fashioned. For her, you fall in love with one man, you get married, you have kids. Just like that, it's today, but with aliens and fighting. I love the contrast of that. It's very human. That's the thing I wanted to keep since the beginning. Basically, the story is if the guy's going to get the girl."
Fucking Luc Besson

>>87689337
Shilly Shill and the Marketing Bunch

>>87709953
>I never heard anyone call the series mysoginistic

Just you wait. As soon as something slightly obscure like this becomes popular, people will swarm to the source material. Then there will be a select few that'll look for points to criticize. Then they will find them. And BOOM:

"30 Reasons Why The Besson Film Is Better Than The Horrible Comic Book."

And Yes. There Will Be Arbitrary Capitalizing In Heaps And Bounds.

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>>87727826
>You can exactly tell the moment Luc Besson turned old and frumpy.

>>87727916
>"30 Reasons Why The Besson Film Is Not As Misogynistic As The Horrible Comic Book."

I mean, come on, Besson casted the only black actress as a stripper. He's probably racist like Tim Burton.

>>87727916
Like in OP?
Love the comic, will probably see the movie as an animated illustration because I'm a sucker for that sort of thing, but it doesn't need stupidcaps shilling.

>>87709953
>But I'm more worried about fiery Laureline becoming nothing more than the serious half of a classical hollywood duo.
Definitely seems that way, sadly. Why do all "strong action girls" have to be so "no fun allowed"? The comic had the right idea, but judging from the trailer, Besson went the cliche route...

>>87727975
>implying he didn't create a job in the acting industry for the ailing woman of colour
>implying literally everyone else except woman directors would've cast anyone less than a buxom blonde bimbo

You just gotta spin it right.

>>87727975
>Tim Burton
>racist
Wut

>>87728039
To be fair, it kind of is funny how for all the talks about "diversity", all "progressive" female action protags just happen to be skinny white women. Then again, Rihanna isn't a protag either, just a secondary character.

>>87727826
>they love each other, but they don't want to say it
>He's a puppy
>she's very old fashioned
>Basically, the story is if the guy's going to get the girl.
WHAT THE FUCK AM I READING

Does anyone have 12, 13 and 14 in English? I havent been able to find those.....

>>87727916
This isn't the type of comic where a woman can get raped in another dimension and give birth to her rapist in this one so that she can enjoy being raped by what's her own child.

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>>87727826
Another gem:
>In one of the greatest pull quotes from the Hall H presentation, DeHaan compared Valerian to a "space bro,"

>>87689337
Just read the comic you mongoloids.

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>>87710043
Simple coincidence.

>>87702662
>>87702934

Radcliffe is actually pretty funny, like Elijah Wood he survived being a child actor by developing a morbid sense of humor.

>>87701694
>because that movie was a fucking joke.

I hate to tell you this, but people fucking loved Lucy.

That movie did gangbusters and people ate it up.

Amazing, /co/ know about valerian, French fag here valerian is a gem, and the animated series (valerian et laureline) is a really good adaptation

>>87728253
>"space bro,"

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For anyone who has read the Valerian comics, the art in the first volume looks a bit cartoonier than the others, I heard the series changes in tone pretty wildly and I'm wondering where an easy, casual reader would start if not vol. 1?

>>87728366
Most of /co/ are capefags, but there's a part of /co/ that is interested in BD. That part, of course, knows about Valerian. (Also, some of us are Eurofags ourselves)

So Frenchfag, how do you feel about Luc Besson's interpretation?

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>>87728253
>"space bro,"
>>87721109
>her traditional values
>>87727826
>Basically, the story is if the guy's going to get the girl.

>>87728446
It'll probably be pretty bad. I'll dl it just to look at the design and the landscapes i guess.

>>87689523
Well, new Star Trek is way better than new Star Wars, so.

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>>87707428
>>87710329
Don't worry, Valerian cucked her too

>>87689337
shes so damn fugly.

>>87728681
She really and truly is. I guess her gross looking unshaped eyebrows make her look different, but jesus fuck she really isn't attractive in any way shape or form. Doesn't help that she's just as ugly on the inside as well.

>>87727916
I can predict each of those articles will feature the word "oversexualized" at some point

>>87689337
who is that boy?

>>87728742
draco malfoy

>>87728572
There's also "Heroes of the Equinox" where he literally repopulate a whole planet.

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>>87728786
>>87728742
More like Tommen Baratheon.

>>87728725
youre right, her inner foulness has corrupted how she looks on the outside. i know a guy thats a sound guy, specifically doing hookups on lavaliers and wireless mics, who met her and a bunch of the people that were involved with suicide squad, he said everyone else was happy as hell and friendly to each other and to staff.

except her. she was full on raging bitch.

margo robbie signed literally everything someone put in front of her, and did peoples voicemails as Harley, as did will smith.

she refused to talk to anyone. he has an adopted foster sister that was severely abused with emotional problems, and he said carra acted just like her, down to tone of voice.

>>87728886
I absolutely believe it. There was an interview I saw where she had to talk about some stupid movie she did call paper airplanes, and she was just being shitty and showing to everyone there and watching that she really didn't want to be there and had absolutely no interest in promoting her movie. So the news crew saw this as it was happening, and literally called her out on it. It was pretty great. She just looks, sounds, and acts like a massive all around cunt to the T. And she can't act.

>>87728886
Will Smith did voicemails as Harley? Cool

>Cara Develigne

Into the trash it goes

>>87728837
She's more closer to jauffre.

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>>87729046
Yeah, uncanny resemblance

>>87689461
She looks angry. It appeals to me.

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>>87727742
>Rihanna as a Sulluss
Smelly space blob ftw.

>>87728410
Books 1 to 9 can be read alone without amajor issues. 9 and 10 are actually a really nice arc, that includes everything that made the series famous.
11 to 13 are a major game changer in the setting, so it works better if you get attached to the characters first by reading all the previous books.

14 and 15 also work well alone.

Then it's the end of the series until book 21, and the quality suffers a bit IMO.

It's quite hard to recommend one book over the other because they don't have much in common: In one you'll be following 4 gladiators in an arena, the next one is gonna be an ecological fable about natives, and the next one will be mercenary investigations in a cyberpunk city. But try book 9.

>>87709133
>that only just received an English translation
>1985
Are you high?
But I like how you seem to think that the french are a hivemind hellbent on the destruction of the US.
>It iz time, mes amis. Star wars has opened the way.
>Now we can flood zeir market with our own productions. Let's put everyone to work.
>Death to the anglos !! Viva la France !!!!
>Hahonhonhonhonhon

>>87689337
Let me know when they'll decide to make Armada into a movie. or even just Nävis

>>87729106
Bonjour Luc

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>>87728253
>>87727826
I'm so fucking mad right now.

But I laughted a the mila jovovich title.

>>87729206
You mean Wake/Sillage?

As female leads go, I'd like to see Marlysa. I'm starved for campy swashbucking, and the shitstorm should be fun to watch as well.

>>87729399
Who's Marlysa?

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Am I correct in assuming that the original comics Valerians looks were inspired by legendary french actor Alain Delon?

>>87729677
>Delon
De loin.

>>87729677
Back when men were men, not >>87728253

>>87689461
I won't lie, I like women in form fitting full body armor.

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>>87729677
Now that you mention it, I am getting an Alain Delon and Romy Schneider vibe from the comic designs.

>>87729980
>form fitting
You know it's like five times her boob size

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>>87729776
Old classic.

>>87730025
I think that's exactly it.

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>>87730260
He would make a better Valerian than DeHann, that's for sure.

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>>87689337
So we have another ugly ass chick who will be waifu'd hard as fuck

>>87722190
Love the comment section there
>I'm here because one of my fav actresses is in the movie so I wanna read it before the movie comes out XD

Did someone watche the cartoon ? Is it good ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W1cuRv6GRw