Luc Besson

Luc Paul Maurice Besson, known simply as Luc Besson, is a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. He directed and/or produced movies such as Anna in 2019 starring Sasha Luss, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets in 2017 starring Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne, and Lucy in 2014 starring Scarlett Johansson.

In 1981, Besson directed his first film, a 12 minute short entitled ‘The Penultimate’, called ‘L'avant dernier’ in the original French version, about a man’s struggle to survive in a post-apocalyptic world.

In 1988, Besson directed ‘Le Grand Bleu’, or, ‘The Big Blue’, an award winning adventure film about the true story of two childhood friends and now world-renowned free divers.