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1	* BillingDisplacement: Rutger Hauer is given top billing despite his screen time being just one minute.
2	* BoxOfficeBomb: It had an estimated $177,200,000 budget and managed $224,600,000 in international box office totals. Notably, news publications were calling it a bomb in its ''first week of release'', and its later numbers unfortunately didn't improve from there, and it earned a dismal $40.5 million at the US box office.
3	* CelebrityVoiceActor:
4	** The French dub features Canadian actor/director Creator/XavierDolan as Valérian and French singer-songwriter/actress Stéphanie "Soko" Sokolinski as Laureline.
5	** In the Japanese dub, Bubble's human form is voiced by comedienne Yuriyan Retriever and the Doghan Daguis are voiced by members of the folk rock band the Alfee.
6	* CreatorKiller: The film's catastrophic box office performance resulted in Edouard de Vesinne being ousted as Creator/EuropaCorp's deputy CEO. The company has since gone into debt. It was bought out in 2020 by Vine Alternative Investments and Creator/LucBesson is not a majority owner anymore, only retaining creative control on the future films for five years. Besson meanwhile is attempting a CareerResurrection with ''Dogman'', which he will start to film in spring 2022.
7	* CrossDressingVoices: Creator/ElizabethDebicki voices Emperor Haban Limaï.
8	* CrossRegionalVoiceActing: Voice actors from Paris (Barbara Webber Schaff[[labelnote:]]Empress Aloi[[/labelnote]], Lee Delong[[labelnote:]]Tsuuri[[/labelnote]], Chloé Hollings[[labelnote:]]The computer voice[[/labelnote]] and Elizabeth Debicki[[labelnote:]]Emperor Haban Limaï[[/labelnote]]) and America (Creator/JohnGoodman[[labelnote:]]Iron Siruss[[/labelnote]], Creator/RobbieRist and Christopher Swindle[[labelnote:]]both as Doghan Daguis[[/labelnote]]) were used for the film.
9	* DirectedByCastMember:
10	** The Latin American Spanish dub was directed by Gerardo García, who also dubbed Guide Thaziit.
11	** Rodolfo Bianchi directed the Italian dub and voiced the President of the World State Federation.
12	* DoingItForTheArt: No matter what the result, it cannot be denied that Luc Besson adored this project. [[http://io9.gizmodo.com/valerians-opening-scene-is-so-crazy-luc-besson-recruit-1796654089 Valerian's opening scene is so crazy, Besson recruited an army of his own film students to explain it]]. He even waived his own salary in order to get the film made.
13	* DyeingForYourArt: Cara Delevingne worked out for months to get in the right shape for the role.
14	* FakeAmerican: Cara Delevingne (who is British) continues her [[Film/PaperTowns long]] [[Film/SuicideSquad2016 tradition]] of playing more Americans than Brits.
15	* InMemoriam: A dedication to Luc Besson's father, Claude Besson, appears before the ending credits. Claude died one year before the film's release.
16	* MilestoneCelebration: The film's release coincided with the 50th anniversary of the original comic.
17	* MultipleLanguagesSameVoiceActor: Alain Chabat (Bob), Pauline Hoarau (Aloï), Marilhéa Peillard (Tsûuri), Ola Rapace (Gibson), Stefan Konarske (Zito) and Peter Hudson (Crawford) reprised their roles for the French dub.
18	* ProducedByCastMember: Besides producing the Latin American Spanish dub, Magdalena "Nanny" Questa was one of the additional voices.
19	* PromotedFanboy: Rutger Hauer's presence in the movie results in this for Luc Besson -- who is a huge fan of ''Film/BladeRunner''.
20	* RealLifeRelative: In the Italian dub, brothers Oreste and Creator/NanniBaldini respectively voice Jolly and Thaziit.
21	* StarDerailingRole: Creator/DaneDeHaan and Creator/CaraDelevingne were both reeling from the lackluster reception their previous high-profile blockbusters, ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2'' for [=DeHaan=] and ''{{Film/Suicide Squad\|2016}}'' for Delevingne, received before they headlined this film in a badly botched comeback attempt. When it bombed, their hype sunk with [=DeHaan=] retreating to television afterwards while Delevingne refocused on her modeling career.
22	* StuntCasting: Pop singer Rihanna as Bubble.
23	* ThoseTwoActors: Cara Delevingne and Dane De Haan also appeared in the period romance ''Tulip Fever'', released the same year.

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