![]() So after some pre-production work (including meeting with designers see below), he put The Fifth Element aside and-in the course of 11 months- wrote and directed Léon: The Professional, starring Jean Reno, 13-year-old Natalie Portman, and future The Fifth Element villain Gary Oldman. ![]() But his respectable track record wasn't enough to pull in the kind of financial backing he needed for a futuristic sci-fi adventure. Mad Frenchman Luc Besson had five features under his belt when he started working on The Fifth Element in 1992. L é on: The Professional helped it get made. If you're on the "yes" side, here's some knowledge to add to your multi-pass next time you watch it. You probably think it's either great or terrible-there's not much in-between on this one. Luc Besson's 23rd-century spectacle features a breakout performance by Milla Jovovich, and had Bruce Willis saving Earth from a giant rock one year before Armageddon. ![]() If The Fifth Element-which was released 20 years ago today-isn't the goofiest, most outlandish sci-fi action movie ever made, it's not for lack of trying. ![]()
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