French director Luc Besson and his producer wife Virginie Silla have arrived in Taiwan to promote their new action thriller “Lucy.”
The couple will attend the film’s premiere in Taipei on Monday. The film is filled with images of Taipei, showing Taipei streets, the landmark Taipei 101 skyscraper, the Taipei Railway Workshop, the Regent Taipei, and Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport.
American actress Scarlett Johansson plays the heroine, a college student living in Taipei who is forced to become a drug mule for the mob. She was then accidentally infected with a virus that unlocks the full potential of her brain and transforms her into a superhuman fighting machine.
Besson said he had wanted the film to start in a foreign place, and Taipei was always on his mind since he visited 20 years ago to promote his film "The Fifth Element". “Lucy” will hit theaters in Taiwan on August 20.