In a 2011 interview with Moviefone, the director said that as much as he loved working on the film, "If I do another sci-fi one day, which I would love, I will do a complete new thing." Fans can always cross their fingers that Besson changes his mind. The complicated box office reception of "The Fifth Element" might have ruined the potential for a sequel, but is there any chance Besson will ever return to those 180 pages? It doesn't seem so.
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Besson essentially had an entire second movie ready to go. So the groundwork for a sequel was already in place way back in 1997. Naturally, plenty of Besson's original ideas had to be scrapped, and Kamen said, "The sequel would have been taking the other 180-page thing he had and working it into a script." Putting together the original film involved weeks of Kamen and Besson going over all the ideas for the characters and the world, shaping them into something that movie audiences could follow. Robert Mark Kamen helped Besson write the screenplay for "The Fifth Element," and in an interview with Uproxx, he revealed the faintest hints about the sequel he and Besson once planned.
Besson told Screen Rant that the two of them eventually found a compromise that involved Willis only having to work four days a week, but he also had to sit right next to the director's chair, so he could be ready to go for every one of Besson's fast-paced shots. He and Bruce Willis had a tense relationship on set because their approaches to filmmaking were vastly different, with Besson moving at a much quicker speed. The film made just over $63 million in the U.S., which likely wasn't enough money for studios in the States to consider taking a risk on a sequel.Įven if the money had been there, Besson might not have been dying to get to work on a sequel. Finding the funding to make the movie was a challenge, and getting enough cash for round two would have been even harder because while "The Fifth Element" was a high earner internationally, it didn't do so well in the United States.
That's nothing to sneeze at by today's standards, but in the late '90s, Luc Besson's sci-fi adventure was the most expensive European film ever produced. (Pro tip: watching the movie Mamma Mia during this part make it extra fun, just take my word for it.Creating "The Fifth Element" took a budget of $90 million. Lastly, I used an Exacto blade to cut out each circle in the suspenders, referencing an image for their placement. I cut the area a little narrow and reinforced it with more duct tape. Then, I placed the duct tape-covered suspenders over my body and measured what width and space I'd need in the crotch in order for it to not be too tight or uncomfortable. I made sure that I determined which side of the template was going to be facing inward, and folded the extra ductape around the sides of the suspenders, so hair or other things won't get caught on the sticky duct tape ends. Next, I covered the paper skeleton with orange duct tape. I needed to make a few edits as I went along, but it generally kept pretty straight. Throughout all of this, I constantly held the skeleton of these suspenders to my body to make sure I was on the right track. I did this all down the Leeloo suspenders. Once that looked good, I would trace this cutout and cut out a replica of it, for the other side of the suspenders. I then cut it out and held it to my body to ensure that it fit. I held the paper up to my body, starting from my shoulders, and started to trace a general outline of what the suspenders would look like, drawing from a photo for inspiration. I took a handful of thick cardstock papers and got started. I didn't want to print a template - mostly because it may not fit my body dimensions anyway, so I started from scratch. I started making these suspenders by looking at what other cosplayers have done, specifically from this article.
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