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Netflix is reportedly close to buying Luc Besson's movie studio
Netflix may get a lot more from filmmaker Luc Besson than that rumored multi-movie deal. Sources speaking to France's Capital have claimed that Netflix is in "advanced talks" to acquire EuropaCorp, the studio co-founded by Besson back in 2000. While many of the current terms are under wraps, Besson would reportedly remain to watch over the company's creative side. A deal could be official "within a few weeks," the insiders said (one would have happened earlier if not for a last-minute renegotiation), and the aim is to have a deal done by the summer.
Netflix reportedly in talks with Luc Besson for multi-picture deal
Fans of Léon: The Professional, The Fifth Element, Lucy and Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets have reason to get excited. According to Variety, French auteur Luc Besson is in talks with Netflix for a multi-picture deal. According to the site's sources, the movies will be called Netflix Originals and will have $30 million budgets.
Luc Besson on ‘Valerian’ and his return to bold, inventive sci-fi
With Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, Luc Besson is once again delivering an elaborate sci-fi epic, his first since The Fifth Element. (Lucy, his last film, with Scarlett Johansson, was decidedly more small-scale.) Based on the French comic series Valerian and Laureline -- which also served as a major inspiration for Star Wars -- the film centers on a duo of space and time-traveling agents who are tasked with solving a galactic mystery. Valerian, which opens in theaters July 21, stars Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevingne, Rihanna (as a shapeshifting alien, no less) and Clive Owen. The film is also the biggest independent-film production ever, with a budget of $180 million. It's filled with the sumptuous visuals we've come to expect from Besson -- the only difference now is that filmmaking technology has finally caught up with his imagination.
Arthur game team shared offices with movie group
Yahoo! Games interviews Luc Besson about upcoming movie and game, Arthur and the Invisibles. We're used to most movie IP games being shovelware from a third-party developer, tossed at parents who think the family will like the a game as much as the movie. ("It says Happy Feet right on it. It must be good!")Instead, Besson describes how his animation team shared office space with the videogame team; the two groups worked on their own projects at the same time. While Besson downplays any close collaboration, saying he ran into the game designers mostly at lunch, we still like the idea of the movie- and game-teams working in proximity. Some ideas must have traveled between the groups.
Arthur and the Invisibles screens
Not too long ago, we told you about a quirky new game based off a Luc Besson CG movie called Arthur and the Minimoys, or, Arthur and the Invisibles as its also known. Atari released some new screenshots for the game and we are still intrigued by the games all together look and feel. Is it us or does the whole place look like Tinker Bell went overboard with the fairy dust? [Via QJ Net]
Arthur and the Invisibles hands-on
Aside from truly beautiful artwork and intriguing characters who remind us of plastic trolls, Arthur and the Invisibles is rather eye catching. Based on Luc Besson's (Fifth Element) CG film that will debut early next year, the game promises to contain elements similar to Wario Ware Touched with a twist of Minimoy. You can also raise your very own "mul mul" and even have it play with friends mul mul's via wireless link to another DS. IGN has the rest of the details and a lot of very attractive screenshots of the art, somewhat gameplay and the CG characters themselves.
