Luc Besson

Luc Besson

18 March 1959

Lucy (2014)

"The average person uses 10% of their brain capacity. Imagine what she could do with 100%."

Directed by Luc Besson
Produced by Virginie Silla
Written by Luc Besson
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Amr Waked, Choi Min-sik
Music by Éric Serra
Cinematography: Thierry Arbogast
Edited by Julien Rey
Production company: EuropaCorp, TF1 Films Production, Canal+, Ciné+
Distributed by EuropaCorp. Distribution, Universal Pictures
Release date: 25 July 2014 (Canada)
Running time: 89 minutes
Country: France, Taiwan, Germany
Budget: $40.000.000
Box office: $415.000.000

"Lucy" is a sci-fi action thriller film written and directed by Luc Besson. The story is about Lucy, a 25-year-old American woman living and studying in Taipei, Taiwan. She is tricked into working as a drug mule by her new boyfriend, whose employer, Mr. Jang, is a Korean mob boss and drug lord. Lucy delivers a briefcase to Mr. Jang containing a highly valuable synthetic drug called CPH4. After seeing her boyfriend shot and killed, she is captured and a bag of the drug is forcibly sewn into her abdomen and that of three other drug mules who will also transport the drug for sales in Europe. While Lucy is in captivity, one of her captors kicks her in the abdomen, breaking the bag, releasing a large quantity of the drug into her system. As a result, she begins acquiring increasingly enhanced physical and mental capabilities, such as telepathy, telekinesis, mental time travel, and can choose not to feel pain or other discomforts, in addition to other abilities. What are she going to do with it?