The film The Big Blue, directed by Luc Besson in 1988, was inspired by his life story ( and the life story of the Italian diver Enzo Maiorca ); Mayol was one of the screenwriters.

It has been claimed that Besson has written the script for a sequel, which Transporter 3 director Olivier Megaton was to direct and in which Portman would reprise the Mathilda role.

Besson was born in Paris to parents who both worked as Club Med scuba-diving instructors.

The family returned to France when Besson was 10.

Besson was also in charge of the promotional movie for the Paris bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics.

" Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut were rebelling against existing cultural values and used cinema as a means of expression simply because it was the most avant-garde medium at the time ," said Besson in The New York Times.

" When the film had its premiere on opening night at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival, it was mercilessly drubbed, but no matter ; it was a smash ," observed the International Herald Tribune in a 2007 profile of Besson.

Their daughter, Shana Besson, was born in 1993.

* Part of Léon: The Professional ( 1994 ), by Luc Besson, was shot there, although it was set in an apartment block.

Luc Besson was initially unsure of whom to cast in the main role of Jacques Mayol.

The film was dedicated to his daughter Juliette Besson who required surgery, having become ill whilst he was working on the film.

John Boorman wrote a script and was at one time tipped to direct, as was Luc Besson.

She starred in a music video for the hit title song Pull Marine, which was directed by Luc Besson.

Moebius contributed storyboards and concept designs to numerous science fiction films, including Alien by Ridley Scott, Tron by Disney, The Fifth Element by Luc Besson, Star Wars V, and for Jodorowsky's planned adaptation of Frank Herbert's Dune, which was however abandoned in pre-production.

Nikita ( also known by the title: La Femme Nikita ) is a 1990 Franco-Italian thriller film written and directed by Luc Besson ; it was released in the United States as La Femme Nikita.

Bécaud's song " L ' Orange " was also the featured track in one of the trailer of the movie Léon ( aka The Professional ) by Luc Besson.

Maiorca was fictionalized in the 1988 Luc Besson film The Big Blue as well as his rivalry with the French diver Jacques Mayol.

Her international modelling career and recognition worldwide was set after she shot the Cacharel fragrance campaign " Eau d ' Eden " with French photographer director Jean Paul Goude, then followed the Chanel 5 campaign with director Luc Besson, all while she was managed by George Gallier.

Besson married Milla Jovovich on 14 December 1997, but they divorced in 1999.

On 28 August 2004, Besson married film producer Virginie Silla.

A partisan of the experimental cinema and friend of the " nouvelle vague " directors, Bassan enroled Besson with two other directors who shared " le look.

American film critic Armond White has praised Besson, who he claims is one of the best film producers, for refining and revolutionizing action film, also stating that Besson dramatizes the struggle of his characters " as a conscientious resistance to human degradation ".

As usual, Farmer did not shy away from controversy ; " Que mon cœur lâche ", a song dealing with AIDS and sexual relations, is accompanied by a video directed by Luc Besson ( the first time in the singer's career that a video wasn't directed by Boutonnat ) in which Farmer plays an angel sent down to earth by God ( who refuses to send Jesus again, stating that " last time it was a disaster ") to save mankind from itself.

One of her top advisors, Éric Besson, resigned soon afterwards over a disagreement about the costs of this programme, which he believes could reach € 35 billion, while others in the campaign team wanted to delay bringing out that figure. figure was equivalent to that of Mr. Sarkozy's but higher than Mr. Bayrou's, who was becoming a key figure in the race.

It was also Luc Donckerwolke who transformed a Lola B98 / 10 – Judd into a Vaillante and a Panoz LMP-1 Roadster-S into a Leader car in 2003 for the Besson movie.

The Transporter ( French: Le Transporteur ) is a 2002 French action film directed by Louis Leterrier and Corey Yuen and written by Luc Besson, who was inspired by BMW Films ' The Hire series.

A member of the Académie de Médecine, he was a colleague and close friend of professors Jean Quenu and Albert Besson, who in 1950 identified cats to be the natural reservoir of the Cat scratch disease.

In December 1991, Mézières was approached by director Luc Besson, a lifelong fan of Valérian, who wanted Mézières to work on designs for a science fiction film called Zaltman Bléros.

Along with his old friend Jean Giraud, who had also been approached by Besson, he began work producing concepts of buildings and vehicles for the futuristic New York depicted in the script.

In December 2009 the keyboardist Delyan Georgiev ( who is professional cameraman and participates in a film by Luc Besson ) leaves the band and Vasil Belezhkov continues to work as keyboardist as well as guitarist.

Arthur and the Invisibles ( Arthur and the Minimoys in non-English-speaking territories — Arthur et les Minimoys in French-speaking countries ) is a French / American part-animated, part-live action feature film adaptation of the 2002 children's book Arthur et les minimoys / Arthur and the Minimoys, and the 2003 sequel Arthur et la cité interdite / Arthur and the Forbidden City, written by filmmaker Luc Besson, who also directed the film.

The company was formed in 1837 by Gustave Auguste Besson, who at the age of 18 produced a revolutionary design of cornet which surpassed all contemporary models.

Luc Besson made Nikita in 1990, a movie that inspired remakes in both United States and in Hong Kong.

She and director Luc Besson have a daughter, but the couple separated shortly after he directed her in Nikita.

Film scholars have noted the similarities between Woo's style and The Killer with the films Nikita ( 1990 ) and Léon ( 1994 ) directed by French director Luc Besson.

* 1990: Nikita, directed by Luc Besson

* Léon: The Professional a 1994 film directed by Luc Besson

He appeared in a significant supporting role in the 1997 Luc Besson film The Fifth Element, playing the right-hand man " Right Arm " to evil businessman Mr. Zorg.

** Luc Besson, French film producer, writer, and director

Léon: The Professional (; Original U. S .: The Professional ) is a 1994 English-language French thriller film written and directed by Luc Besson.

Roger Ebert awarded the film two-and-a-half stars out of four, writing: " It is a well-directed film, because Besson has a natural gift for plunging into drama with a charged-up visual style.

Luc Besson (; born 18 March 1959 ) is a French film director, writer, and producer.

The film is inspired by the French comic books Besson read as a teenager.

In the early 1980s, Besson met Éric Serra and asked him to compose the score for his first short film, L ' Avant dernier.

Besson is working on a film called The Lady ( original title Dans la Lumiere ), due to be released in the fall of 2011.

The Big Blue () is a 1988 English-language Cinéma du look film made by French director Luc Besson.

Besson has a cameo appearance as one of the divers in the film.

There have also been a number of films to feature elements of parkour ; After including parkour practitioners in a chase sequence in the film Taxi 2, French director / producer Luc Besson produced a feature film, Yamakasi, featuring members of the original Yamakasi group.