[ShaneP]

Besson just announced it over Twitter.

Not just ILM but also Weta and Rodeo.

Wow.

Can't wait for this.

[Kmart]

Never heard of this ... Valerian Root or Conan's Valeria after undergoing gender reassignment?

[ShaneP]

Never heard of this ... Valerian Root or Conan's Valeria after undergoing gender reassignment?

lol. No, the French comic book by Christin and Mezieres from the 70s.

[aslan]

Very good news, was hoping for this one to happen. Looks like summer 17 is going to be full of sci-fi shenanigans.

[aslan]

Weta are doing cg character work. Rodeo are doing the environmental work, and ILM are doing one specific sequence for this film.

[ShaneP]

Weta are doing cg character work. Rodeo are doing the environmental work, and ILM are doing one specific sequence for this film.

Yes. Here is the link to the Variety article on this:

http://variety.com/2015/film/news/valer ... 201598759/



This makes me wonder: Where is Avatar 2? This is coming out in 2017. Letteri is supervising Weta's work on this.

Will we see Avatar 2 by 2018?

[aslan]

Thanks for posting that Shane. Really looking forward to this one, should be a hell of a sequence from ILM.

Does anyone care about Avatar 2 ? It's so odd how little cultural impact that film has left. I forget it even exists sometimes.

[TylerMirage]

Weta are doing cg character work. Rodeo are doing the environmental work, and ILM are doing one specific sequence for this film.

Ooh, intriguing collaboration there.

Does anyone care about Avatar 2 ? It's so odd how little cultural impact that film has left. I forget it even exists sometimes.

I think there'd be more hype for Avatar 2 if they had actually started on it, you know, hot off the heels of the first one. The hype and enthusiasm for Avatar has definitely died down. The 3D fad is ubiquitous now, the "billion dollar club" is getting less exclusive and even if they started principal photography right friggin' now, it'd still be friggin' years before the movie hit theatres.

[ShaneP]

Beeson talks to some journos about the work on the film as he screens a few scenes for them.

Here is a snapshot:
"ILM is doing the first 25 minutes of the movie, which is essentially one big scene that takes place at an intergalactic, interdimensional marketplace. Weta is handling the bulk of the rest of the movie, which mostly takes place on an 18-mile-long space station. And Rodeo FX is doing all of the spaceships and technology."

Interdimensional marketplace?

Here is the article in its entirety:
http://www.polygon.com/2016/10/10/13226 ... -interview

[ShaneP]

First look at Valerian:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BszXhUjJz00

ILM's "inter-dimensional marketplace" shots seem to come at the first and throughout the trailer. Beeson says all of these shots in the the film are not finals.

[PaulILMFan]

Trailer looks fantastic I love the complexity in all the shots....also it has to be said many look like they are 1:1 taken from AOTC renders

[ShaneP]

I'm thinking now that some of those shots you mention are the space station WETA is doing.

[PaulILMFan]

I'm thinking now that some of those shots you mention are the space station WETA is doing.

ILM's interdimensional marketplace shots look a lot like AOTC to me! Compare that to the chase sequence early on in AOTC where they are jumping from speeder to speeder in the extended coruscant chase through the aerial city. Beeson is the master of plagiarism after all just ask John Carpenter (who he had to pay money to for his lifts from Escape From New York!)
http://variety.com/2016/film/global/joh ... 201826597/

[ShaneP]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcIlQFP ... e=youtu.be

Final trailer is epic!

[ShaneP]

Interview with Beeson about the film. He talks a bit about the vfx and ILM's work for the Big Market. Roughly 600 shots.

https://www.moviefone.com/2017/07/21/lu ... ster-eggs/

[ShaneP]

Philippe Rebours talks to Vincent at ArtofVfx about ILM Vancouver's work on Valerian:

http://www.artofvfx.com/valerian-and-th ... ght-magic/

ILM did the market and colorful sand planet sequences. 585 shots. Around 250 ILMers and Hybride(-ers?) worked on it.

[TylerMirage]

VFX-wise, I thought this was astounding! It had the whole "Avatar thing" going on where I knew that most, if not all, of what I was seeing was computer generated, yet pieces looked so photoreal that it cast doubt on my guesses on where the blend might've been.

Wouldn't surprise me if this ended up in the final five noms for the Oscar.