By Matt O'Bryant

Director Luc Besson's passion project Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets starring Dane Dehaan and Cara Delevingne has officially begun production today. The film is based on "Dargaud's French science fiction graphic novel series "Valerian and Laureline" created by Jean-Claude Mézières and Pierre Christin". With the creative and inventive mind of Luc Besson at the helm of this cult classic comic series, this film has sky rocketed to one of our most anticipated films of 2017. Sound off in the comments section, how excited are you to hear that production has finally begun? Is Dane DeHaan and Delevingne the best fit for the classic characters Valerian and Laureline?

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