He's more prolific now as a co-writer and producer of fun action quickies like From Paris With Love, the Transporters, the Taxis, the District 13s and Taken. But sometimes Luc Besson still directs, and here's the trailer for his latest: **Les Aventures Extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec.
His first behind-the-camera outing since Arthur and the Invisibles (and, it looks like, his first good one since Angel-A), it's based on a series of Franco-Belgian comics by writer and artist Jacques Tardis. Blanc-Sec (it means Dry White) is a feisty Parisian investigative journalist in the years immediately before and after the First World War (she sat the war itself out in cryogenic suspension).
Besson's film is based on the first serialised newspaper comic strip from 1976, collected as Adèle et la Bête. As you'll see from the trailer, it involves a pterodactyl unleashed on France's capital city, and all manner of adventuresome Egyptian weirdness. Thankfully, it all looks more **Indiana Jones than The Mummy, **with maybe a dash of Sherlock Holmes?
Adèle is played by Louise Bourgoin, with support from Gilles Lelouche and Philippe Nahon (probably having more fun than he generally does with Gaspar Noé). The French release date is April 14th. There are two more teaser trailers over at the rather funky official website: click on the pillar on the right to find them.