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btw

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[Upcoming book] The Fifth Element: A Visual Retrospective (September, @titanbooks.bsky.social) by Patrice Girod (Lucasfilm Magazine) and Arnaud Grunberg (Starfix Museum) “This book will be like having a Fifth Element gallery exhibition in your very hands.”

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The Fifth Element is really popular. Okay, let's start a thread. 🚨 Note: no one forgets Luc Besson's behavior, but this thread is about the creation of this film (whose script bears the mark of its creator, in fantastic and/or bad ways).

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Luc Besson began to imagine this story in the 1970s. It should be noted that this film had a first life in 1991-1992, when Jean "Moebius" Giraud, Jean-Claude Mézières, Patrice Garcia, and more fantastic artists started to draw this universe. Diva Plavalaguna, early design by Jean-Claude Mézières:

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The project was stopped in 1992 for budget reasons. It was only after the success of Leon: The Professional (1994), and the unexpected arrival of Bruce Willis that the film was made. The first version of this movie will be the subject of one of my next articles on my Patreon. Research done.

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Mézières: "If some drawings did not find their use (...), some received a luxury treatment: this gouache showing a general view of his New York of the XXIIIth century had pleased Luc Besson who said to me: "That, you can be sure, you will see it on the screen."

Mach V
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No to mention the amazing costume design work by Jean Paul Gaultier! Which is why everyone looks impeccably well dressed. :) I love The Fifth Element, even with it's dreadful ending.