Claim: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is based on a French fantasy comic.
Evidence: The film is based on the French science fiction comics series Valérian and Laureline , written by Pierre Christin and illustrated by Jean-Claude Mézières.
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets -LRB- Valérian et la Cité des mille planètes -RRB- is an upcoming English-language French science fiction action-adventure film co-produced , written and directed by Luc Besson.