![]() ![]() Yes there are minor variations which I think were made more from a practical cinematography perspective than for any other reason and to be honest did not detract from the story at all. Yes its hardly challenging - I found myself reading it in a day from cover to cover but still I loved every page of it. The book to me captures the visual spectacle that Luc Besson envisaged (or is it So I am biased - I will say it now I love the film and to be honest the novel really cannot do much wrong either. So I am biased - I will say it now I love the film and to be honest the novel really cannot do much wrong either. The Fifth Element is written directed by Luc Besson, the visually innovative director of La Femme Nikita and The Professional.more ![]() The film stars Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm, Milla Jovovich. The Fifth Element, a timeless story about love and survival, heroes and villains, good and evil, set in a strangely familiar yet intoxicatingly different 23rd Century. This "thing", this darkness, waits patiently at the threshold of the universe for an opportunity to extinguish all life and all light.Įvery five thousand years, the universe needs a hero, and in New York City of the 23rd Century, a good hero is hard to find. ![]() In another exists an element made not of earth, air, fire or water, but of an anti-energy, anti-life. In one dimension lies the universe and all of its multitude of varied life forms. This "thing", this darkness, waits patiently at the threshold of the universe for an opportunity to extinguish all life and al Every five thousand years, a door opens between the dimensions. Since they had too many ideas to work with, Kamen reduced the story to create The Fifth Element and then an eventual sequel.Every five thousand years, a door opens between the dimensions. Besson’s initial script had about 180 pages, to which he added even more story. Both director and screenwriter had worked on a possible sequel since the beginning, Kamen told Uproxx. However, in the US market it only made $63 million, which wasn’t considered a success given its $90 million budget. It held the title for highest-grossing French film at the foreign box office for 16 years, and it grossed an overall $263 million, almost three times its budget. And then he married her.”ĭespite everything, the film was a huge success in international markets. “He made up a whole language,” Kamen refers to the fictional language of 400 words, invented by Besson for Leeloo, “and he and Milla used to speak the language to each other! It was bizarre. Kamen told Uproxx Willis was very difficult on set, even if Besson worked around it, and the director’s personal life also changed when he divorced Maïwenn Le Besco, who plays the role of Diva Plavalaguna in the movie, because he started developing a relationship with Jovovich. Yet, it still took Besson another four years to make the movie as he needed around $90 million. In an interview with Uproxx back in 2021, Kamen recalls these early meetings and how the back of Besson’s studio was already filled with props and costumes for the film. Hailed by a top executive about it, screenwriter Robert Kamen got in touch with Besson and highlighted where the script had its major flaws, so Besson invited him to Paris, and they worked on creating a coherent story for about three weeks. He had imagined it since he was a teenager and had written a script that somehow made its way to Hollywood. The Fifth Element was Luc Besson’s visionary project. However, its international box office was way above average for a European film, and a sequel was planned, but it never happened. The Luc Besson sci-fi space adventure is now regarded as a cult classic, but at the time it opened to very low numbers in the US, despite starring Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Chris Tucker and Gary Oldman in the main roles. It's been 25 years since The Fifth Element hit theaters. ![]()
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