Let’s run Luc Besson’s new movie through the “Luc Besson sci-fi nonsense” checklist
Luc Besson is a little more than halfway through shooting his latest beautiful sci-fi nonsense film, Valerian, so it seemed like as good a time as any to check in on the project, and see whether it’s hitting all the benchmarks on our “Luc Besson science fiction nonsense” checklist. Luckily, Entertainment Weekly just ran a profile on the in-production movie—which stars Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne as gun-toting space spies, and is based on a French comic Besson fell in love with as a kid—that’s full of pictures we can use for our rigorous, scientific investigation.
Okay, let’s start off with an easy one: Is there an attractive young cast clothed in stuff that blurs the line between “space fashion” and “fetish gear”?