Luc Besson Gives You a Taste of Assassin School in the Trailer for His New Web-Series PLAYGROUND
Luc Besson, the filmmaker behind The Professional, The Fifth Element, Lucy, Transporter, Taken, and mor,e has an awesome looking new web-series coming out called Playground. I've enjoyed most of the films that Besson has developed over the years. He always tends to do cool stuff with badass action and Playground definitely looks like it delivers on that.
Variety describes the series as a "high-voltage" mix of Nikita and Kick-Ass. The story is set in Paris and centers on a teenage girl who joins a school for assassins in an effort to uncover the mystery behind her parent's death.
The series looks like it offers a compelling story mixed with some hardcore brutal action. That action comes from fight choreographer Olivier Schneider, who's known for working on films such as Spectre, Taken, Fast and Furious 6, and more. I'm actually excited about watching this. I always thought it would've been cool to go to an assassin school when I was a teenager.
There are ten episodes in its first season, and the length of each one ranges between eight and twelve minutes long. Besson's Playground is being directed by Pascal Sid (Behind the Walls) and it will be available to watch on Vice’s video-focused digital hub, video.vice.com. The series is available to watch right now.