Lucy
Luc Besson deny thatLucy 2is in alive development , while also criticizing journalists for making up the story in the first place . Besson - known for action - thriller and sci - fi films such asNikita , The Fifth Element , Léon : The Professional- had indite and directed the 2014 sci - fi action film , Lucy , asterisk Scarlett Johansson as the eponymous fibre . She was transporting a package of unsung drug , which had been sewn inside her abdomen . When the parcel break , it contaminated her organisation and eventually allowed her to use 100 percentage of her brain .
The story cease with apparently no hypothesis of a sequel , especially considering that Johansson ’s character had essentially transformed herself into a USB stick . But , the picture show was critically and commercially successful enough - make 67 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and grossing $ 463.4 million globally , against an estimated yield budget of only $ 40 million - for EuropaCorp to apologize looking at another instalment , and the studio ’s CEO , Marc Shmuger , confirmed last week that they were actively work on the sequel . Shmuger even expose that Besson had already turn in a handwriting for the second chapter .
However , Besson deny the composition and called the story " fake news " in a recent Instagram Wiley Post . Here is Besson ’s assertion to journalists - not just entertainment journalists - as well as his denial ofLucy 2being in development ( translated from French ):
Dear journalists ,
You are doing a redoubtable , noble and utilitarian job . You look into , cross the info , then you intersect it so that the verity , of which you are the spokesperson , can be heard . What an honor for you to inform , to prevent , to direct , to decipher even … But that was before . Before the Internet and your unrestrained and empty-headed wash to scoop . It does not weigh if the information is ripe or wrong when we are the first to say anything . To the devil check morality or ethical motive . Let us take up a strange article and let us content ourselves with translating it , without perspective , without discernment . When did you mislay that faith ? When did you drop down ? We may be movies that do not please you but we apply , often for years , to swear out our love and our trust . Please render to regain your dignity , your nobility , your braveness . You would involve so much in this difficult prison term . Get back from the height . Respect you .
For information : no I do not cook Lucy 2 . Neither yesterday nor tomorrow . Yet this fake News has been around the mankind thanks to you …. You will say to me : " It is not very serious ' " It is true , you are veracious … but it is " imitation " and normally this word should not be part of your vocabulary , because if we can no longer you believe , how do we nurse a commonwealth ? Our exemption bet on your integrity .
Although Besson is take his defeat out on the medium , it ’s worth remark that the original news thatLucy 2was in active ontogeny did n’t come from a journalist ’s generator , it came direct from Besson ’s own studio point , Shmuger , the CEO of Besson ’s film society EuropaCorp , who kick downstairs the news at a late shareholder conference in France . While the filmmaker does make valid points with regard to improper sourcing , he should probably inquire Shmuger why he made that announcement in the first place .
Of course , given that Besson ’s belated attempt , Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets , go wrong to take off - both critically and commercially - then perhaps it would n’t be the worst approximation to makeLucy 2 , particularly view how well the first movie perform .
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