Rihanna is no stranger to the big screen, but she's certainly particular about what movies she'll appear in. The singer voices one of the main characters in Home and she's made brief appearances in This Is the End and Annie, but as far as face time goes, her biggest role to date has been in Battleship.
That may soon change thanks to Luc Besson. The director of The Fifth Element announced Rihanna is in his next space epic, Valerian. Not only that, but he claims it's for "a big part!!" And yes, the double exclamation points are directly quoted from his announcement, so it would seem he's pretty excited about landing her in the movie.
Valerian will actually be Besson's biggest movie to date. He's made ambitious sci-fi movies in the past (most recently Lucy), but this one is sporting a $180 million budget, takes place in another solar system and is about time-traveling secret agents named Valerian and Laureline, who will be played by Dane Dehaan and Cara Delevingne. We don't know who Rihanna will be playing, but the original French graphic novel, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, is said to have all kinds of weird, otherworldly characters, so we may very well see her taking on a queen of a planet or something over-the-top like that
Or maybe in a crazy twist she'll be playing the Diva Plavalaguna and both Valerian and The Fifth Element take place in the same sci-fi universe. We wouldn't count on that happening, but one can dream.
