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Valérian et Laureline (Valérian and Laureline) influenced The Fifth Element
Added by Media Influence Map · 12 October 2026
The influence
Valérian et Laureline Valérian and Laureline
Comic · 1967
The work it shaped
The Fifth Element
Film · 1997
The evidence
Mézières, who designed for the film, sent Besson the album The Circles of Power, which led Besson to change his hero from a rocket-factory worker to a taxi driver; Mézières re-used his design of a space liner from On the Frontiers for the Fhloston Paradise.
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