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Let’s be honest: Luc Besson’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) was a beautiful, chaotic mess. It had the most expensive opening 20 minutes of any film in history (the breathtaking "Space Oddity" sequence) and some of the clunkiest dialogue ever spoken by leads who had zero romantic chemistry.

Until then, I’ll keep streaming the original just for that market scene on the hyper-dimensional beach.

But here we are, six years later, still talking about it. Why? Because the was unmatched. Valerian 3 C1ty Of A Th0us4nd P14n3ts -MovieLin...

Think about it: Alpha has absorbed the tech and biology of 1,000+ worlds. What if it develops a hive mind? What if it decides that humans are a virus? The third film would see Valerian and Laureline fighting the very station they swore to protect .

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We only saw about a dozen planets in the first film. The title promises thousands . The third movie needs to do what Avatar does: spend 20 minutes just showing us alien ecosystems. No dialogue. Just Besson’s insane imagination.

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That is a killer premise. Probably not financially. But creatively? Absolutely.