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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