Luc Besson

Luc Besson is a French filmmaker whose work spans directing, screenwriting, and producing. He directed visually distinctive films including *The Big Blue*, *La Femme Nikita*, *Léon: The Professional*, *The Fifth Element*, *Lucy*, and *Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets*. In 1999, he founded EuropaCorp, a production and distribution company that helped expand the international reach of French commercial cinema.