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Luc Besson Gives A Tour Of His ‘Dracula: A Love Tale’ Set, Talks New Muse Caleb Landry Jones & Rewatching His “Mad” Movie ‘Valerian’; First Look Revealed
Luc Besson puts his own spin on the Bram Stoker classic.
In the backdrop, the entire studio space is a hive of quiet activity with crew members getting ready for the afternoon shoot, while another 120 production workers build sets and props, with a handful of artists chiselling gargoyles and fake masonry out of polystyrene blocks. Over lunch, the pair trade anecdotes about their big-budget Joan of Arc, for which they set up a field hospital for the battle scenes, recalling one extra, who did not listen to the instructions, and unwittingly followed a stuntman up a ladder to find himself unexpectedly jumping off into the void. Besson recounts one washed out shooting day in the courtyard of Paris’ Palais Royal involving a summer fair screen and 350 extras, in which he managed to film nine key shots during a 15-minute break in the rain, having monitored the weather via satellite.
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