At New York Comic-Con, superstar movie director Luc Besson admitted that the first woman he fell in love with was a comic book character. So when heroine Laureline comes to life next summer in Valerian and The City of a Thousand Planets, it’ll be the culmination of a lifelong dream for the French filmmaker.
Source: io9 – Valerian Is The Movie That Luc Besson Has Waited His Whole Life to Make