Here’s Why THE FIFTH ELEMENT PART II Never Happened
Mike Sprague
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Luc Besson’s The Fifth Element with Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Chris Tucker, and Gary Oldman is a classic. And today, co-writer, Robert Kamen reveals why a sequel never happened. Turns out, the plan fell through after the first film underperformed.
Kamen tells Uproxx: “[The script] was actually 180 pages, and then [Besson] added a second part to it, which made no sense either. We were going to do it as a sequel, but it made no sense. And The Fifth Element wasn’t big enough here. It was huge in the rest of the world, and it’s a classic, but it only did $75 million here or $80 million. It was way ahead of its time. So we never did the sequel, and the sequel would have been taking the other 180-page thing [Besson] had.”
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Bruce Willis stars in the film as Korben Dallas, a New York City cabbie in the 23rd century. He finds the fate of the world in his hands when the embodiment of the fifth element, Leeloo (Milla Jovovich) falls into his cab. Leeloo must combine with the other four elements to keep the Great Evil from destroying the world. Together with Father Vito Cornelius (Ian Holm) and zany Ruby Rhod (Chris Tucker), they must race against time – and the wicked Zorg (Gary Oldman) – to save humanity.
The film sports a 71% approval rating over on Rotten Tomatoes. The Critics Consensus reads: Visually inventive and gleefully over the top, Luc Besson’s The Fifth Element is a fantastic piece of pop sci-fi that never takes itself too seriously.
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