The Fifth Element 2 Was Supposed to Happen, Here's What Killed It

In terms of sci-fi cinema, few films are as bizarrely entertaining as The Fifth Component, the 1997 English-language French science-fiction motion movie directed and co-written by Luc Besson. The film starred an eclectic solid that included Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Chris Tucker, and Gary Oldman. In a dialog with the film's co-writer, Robert Kamen, it was revealed that the unique plan had been to make a sequel to The Fifth Component, that fell by way of as a result of the primary movie underperformed on the box-office.

"[The script for The Fifth Element] was actually 180 pages, and then [Luc Besson] added a second part to it, which made no sense either. We were going to do it as a sequel, but it made no sense, and The Fifth Element wasn't big enough here. It was huge in the rest of the world, and it's a classic, but it only did $75 million here or $80 million. It was way ahead of its time. So we never did the sequel, and the sequel would have been taking the other 180-page thing [Luc Besson] had and working it into a script."

The story behind the making The Fifth Component is as a lot a conflict of cultures because the film itself, which boasted an odd, charming European arthouse aesthetic filtered by way of the prism of uncooked business Hollywood. It tells the story of a taxicab driver, performed by Willis, who takes it upon himself to guard the lifetime of a strang, humanoid creature, performed by Jovovich, whose existence is straight linked to the survival of the human race in opposition to a malevolent cosmic entity.

In response to Kamen, he was working with Warner Brothers as a script physician when the producer of Gran Torino, Invoice Gerber, requested him to check out a unusual new script written by a man named Luc Besson, who had made La Femme Nikita. Kamen had bother understanding the script, however he thought of Besson a cinematic genius based mostly on his earlier work, and so agreed to satisfy the filmmaker. Sadly, the assembly was removed from successful.