Tonight on TV: 5 million theaters, this is Luc Besson’s last big hit

Following circumstances beyond his control, the young student sees his intellectual abilities develop endlessly. He “turns” his brain and gains unlimited power. This pitch, you may have guessed, is the feature film Lucy, directed by Scarlett Johansson, who is one of Luc Besson’s many heroes on the big screen.

Released in 2014, Lucy was a huge hit in cinemas. Luc Besson’s sci-fi film, starring Scarlett Johansson, has grossed nearly $470 million worldwide and attracted more than 5 million viewers in French theaters.

It was the release of Avatar in 2010 that prompted Besson to undertake a project of this magnitude. The Frenchman, who wrote, directed and produced the film, confided at the time that he had never installed it “so many special effects” in one of his works.

“When I did the fifth ElementI had technological tools that were already a bit out of date.”– he said on the microphone of Europe 1. “With the advent of digital technology, it’s incredible what we can do. You can imagine anything, there will always be technicians to follow you in your madness.”

Since the feature film Lucy needed more than 1,000 special effects shots, the production decided to call on the best experts in the field, including ILM (Industrial Light & Magic), the prestigious company founded by George Lucas.

Finally, we note that Lucy was mainly filmed in France. First at Luc Besson’s Cité du Cinéma in Saint-Saint-Denis, then I’ll climb the rock at Etretat in Haute-Normandie and Saint-Cély-du-Tarne in Loser. The film crew also set up cameras in Taipei, on the island of Taiwan.

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Tonight on TF1 at 21:10.

Did you notice the little hidden details of “Lucy”?