Luc Besson spent the first years of his life following his parents, scuba diving instructors, around the world. His early life was entirely aquatic. He already showed amazing creativity as a youth, writing early drafts of The Big Blue (1988) and The Fifth Element (1997), as an adolescent bored in school. He planned on becoming a marine biologist specializing in dolphins until a diving accident at age 17 which rendered him unable to dive any longer. He moved back to Paris, where he was born, and only at age 18 did he first have an urban life or television. He realized that film was a medium which he could combine all his interests in various arts together, so he began taking odd jobs on various films. He moved to America for three years, then returned to France and formed Les Films de Loups - his own production company, which later changed its name to Les Films de Dauphins. He is now able to dive again.

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Luc Besson, Helen Mirren, Luke Evans, and Sasha Luss in Anna (2019)

Luc Besson, Vincent Elbaz, Philippe Hérisson, Franck de la Personne, Anne Girouard, David Morley, and Sarah Brannens in No Limit (2012)

Luc Besson, Robert De Niro, and Tommy Lee Jones in The Family (2013)

Luc Besson and Anne Parillaud in La Femme Nikita (1990)

Luc Besson and Cara Delevingne in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

Luc Besson and Tonio Descanvelle in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

Luc Besson and Herbie Hancock in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

Luc Besson, Dane DeHaan, and Cara Delevingne in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

Milla Jovovich, Gary Oldman, and Bruce Willis in The Fifth Element (1997)

Natalie Portman and Jean Reno in Léon: The Professional (1994)

Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film

Director's Trademarks: A Guide to the Films of Luc Besson

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Les aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec

The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec

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