Ethan Hawke and John Goodman Join Luc Besson's Sci-Fi Film VALERIAN
French filmmaker Luc Besson (The Fifth Element, Leon: The Professional) is hard at work on the most expensive movie in EuropaCorp history, the $180 million sci-fi epic Valerian. He's secured Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevingne, Clive Owen, and Rihanna to star, and now he's added two more veteran actors to the cast: Ethan Hawke and John Goodman.
The Wrap reports that Goodman will provide the voice of a CG alien character, but they don't have any more information than that. (There's no word on Hawke's character at this stage, either.) This won't be the first time Goodman has voiced a CG alien, though: he lent his pipes to the character of Hound in the abysmal Transformers: Age of Extinction.
This film, which has been a passion project for Besson that he's been wanting to make for years, is based on the 1967 French comic by writer Pierre Christin and artist Jean-Claude Mézières. The story centers on Valerian (DeHaan) and Laureline (Delevingne), agents who protect people from rogue time travelers.
Valerian and Laureline are exploring Syrte, capital planet of a system of 1,000 worlds. Their mission is to discover whether the Syrtians could present a danger to Earth. What they find is a decaying empire led by decadent aristocrats, a population ripe for revolution, and a mysterious caste of masked wise men who discreetly pull the strings from hidden fortresses. Swept up by the winds of history, the agents of Earth will have to choose a side.
Production officially begins next month, and Valerian and The City of a Thousand Planets will arrive in theaters on July 21st, 2017.
Via: /Film