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Giraud and Alejandro Jodorowsky later sued Besson for plagiarizing their comic The Incal in The Fifth Element, but the case was dismissed. Besson enlisted those two to head up the production design team for The Fifth Element, and used their sketches and storyboards extensively. It was inspired by French comic books.Īs a teenager in the 1970s, Besson devoured his countrymen's comics (called 'bandes dessinées' there-'drawn strips'), especially the sci-fi titles by artists like Jean-Claude Mézières and Jean 'Moebius' Giraud. Now, basically, you put the camera on your shoulder and then you run and then you add a couple of dinosaurs and spaceships.' He said he'd love the chance to make another futuristic sci-fi film-maybe even a sequel to The Fifth Element-now that technology has made it easier. So when I did the film it was all blue screen, six hours, dots on the wall, takes forever to do one shot. He explained to The Playlist: 'I was a little bit frustrated because I made the film right before all the new effects arrived. Besson kind of wishes it had taken even longer to get it made. Léon's strong showing ($45 million worldwide, on a $16 million budget) gave the people who controlled the purse strings more confidence in Besson's ability to make The Fifth Element a success, and the project was put back on track. So after some pre-production work (including meeting with designers see below), he put The Fifth Element aside and-in the course of 11 months- wrote and directed Léon: The Professional, starring Jean Reno, 13-year-old Natalie Portman, and future The Fifth Element villain Gary Oldman. But his respectable track record wasn't enough to pull in the kind of financial backing he needed for a futuristic sci-fi adventure.

Mad Frenchman Luc Besson had five features under his belt when he started working on The Fifth Element in 1992.

#Fifth element gary oldman professional#

L é on: The Professional helped it get made. If you're on the 'yes' side, here's some knowledge to add to your multi-pass next time you watch it. You probably think it's either great or terrible-there's not much in-between on this one. Luc Besson's 23rd-century spectacle features a breakout performance by Milla Jovovich, and had Bruce Willis saving Earth from a giant rock one year before Armageddon.

#Fifth element gary oldman movie#

If The Fifth Element-which was released 20 years ago today-isn't the goofiest, most outlandish sci-fi action movie ever made, it's not for lack of trying.