Valerian And The City Of [upd] -

Watch the opening montage. Watch the market scene. Watch Rihanna dance through twenty bodies. Watch the Pearls sing their homeworld goodbye.

Besson gives us a breathtaking montage in the opening sequence—set to David Bowie’s Space Oddity . We watch as an international space station in 1975 slowly docks with a Russian module, then a Chinese one, then a Martian one. Over centuries, nations become planets. Rivalries fade. Species after species arrives, builds, and stays. valerian and the city of

Luc Besson tried to give us the city of a thousand planets. We weren't ready for it. But the city is still there, waiting for us to dock. Watch the opening montage

While the film faced criticism for the casting chemistry and a dense plot, it has found a second life as a . It serves as a reminder of what happens when a director is given a massive budget to create something entirely original, without the constraints of a pre-existing cinematic universe. Watch the Pearls sing their homeworld goodbye