While we're already painfully waiting on Rihanna's forthcoming LP Anti, she's thrown yet ANOTHER project in our faces... RiRi now has a "big part" in Luc Besson's upcoming sci-fi epic Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, based on the graphic novel of the same name by Pierre Christin and Jean Claude-Mezieres. Besson excitedly announced the news this morning, via Instagram.
The flick, which focuses on humanity's discovery of time travel in the 28th century, also stars ex-model/actress/snapback enthusiast Cara Delevingne and perpetual brooding schoolboy Dale DeHaan.
Ri and Cara won't have to try very hard for onscreen chemistry; they've been party pals since the early 2010s.
And this ain't Mr. Besson's first distant future rodeo. He directed the legendary 1997 space-saga The Fifth Element, starring Bruce Willis and Milla Jovovich, with seeeeeeeriously gorgeous costumes by Jean Paul Gaultier.
Indeed, Ms. Fenty has some IMDB cred on her tapestry of talent.She had a starring voice role in this year's animated Home, a cameo in bro-comedy This is the End, and, of course, her scene-stealing turn as a brassy Naval weapons specialist with an attitude as deadly as the bullets she fires in 2012's Battleship.
Rihanna as a time-space continuum-hopping bad b*tch, wearing some absurdly awesome couture? Count us in.Valerian comes out in 2017.