EuropaCorp CEO Marc Shmuger told Variety at a recent shareholder meeting in Paris that they are readjusting their lineup following the commercial failure of Besson’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets this past summer. Part of that adjustment includes pushing forward with Lucy 2, which Shmuger says Besson has already written a script for. It’s unclear, however, if they plan on getting Johansson back for the sequel.
Besson co-founded EuropaCorp at the turn of the century, which employs a unique financing model that allows them to take high risks with properties, such as Valerian, and still possibly come out in the green, despite the movies potentially flopping at the worldwide box office. However, following Valerian‘s release, EuropaCorp plans on scaling back their push into more general productions and put their focus back into action thrillers and sci-fi films. Furthermore, going forward, they will release two or three English-language films per year alongside two French movies with lower budgets than usual.
