Behind-the-Scenes Video Gives Us Our First Glimpse ofValerianin Action

The MTV Movie Awards red carpet was the unusual home plate to new footage from Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets . Even without any of the effects added in , things look pretty awesome .

The actual interviews of whiz Dane DeHaan ( Valérian ) and Cara Delevigne ( Laureline ) as well as director Luc Besson in the video say you utterly nothing about the cinema , since , as usual , everyone ’s worried about fumble things . But we can glean a few thing from behind - the - scenes footage .

All we really bang about Valerian is that it ’s based on the French comical serial publication Valérian and Laureline , and , like its informant material , the photographic film will follow two “ spatio - secular broker ” who travel through time and distance on the usual kinds of missions . Based on the variety of tasks in the abstract , it seems like the movie ’s almost going to be an anthology of their missions .

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We can sort of track a few dissimilar ones from the article of clothing and sets . In both this footage and the one above , Valérian and Laureline are wearing resort wear . Valérian ’s also always get a handle on that boxwood , so this foreign mission looks like a recovery . Or thieving .

Here we see Laureline in the distance armor / suit of clothes that seems to be received issue for the Spatio - Temporal Service . She ’s kicking tail end in it , over a seal where the only word I can make out is “ Human . ” It face like there ’s an molecule in it ? I do n’t bonk exactly what ’s going on , but the outfit and the setting look like this is in the future , not Earth ’s past .

Is Laureline undercover ? She ’s in a clothes here , while Valérian ’s in the suit of clothes . Plus , she ’s got a jumbo sword .

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Whatever that commission is — and there ’s a distinct “ castle dungeon ” vibe to this set — it looks like Valérian got caught in avalanche of debris of some form . ( Note that Delevigne ’s off - camera in the same dress , so perhaps these two scenes are connected ? )

In yet another era and set , the agents run into this terrifically dressed cowboy soldier . Based on the red velvet and amber article of furniture , it reckon like this is the same spot where the agents will fulfill whomever Rihanna is playing — but of course , everyone ’s been mum on exactly what her function really is . We did get a glimpse of her , though :

And here she is in her full costume speak with Besson :

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