Where to watch Lucy (2014)
Lucy is available to stream in IN on Netflix. It can also be rented or bought from AppleTV and Amazon.
After being forced into a dangerous criminal operation, a young woman gains extraordinary mental abilities when an experimental substance enters her system. As her powers grow, she fights back against those responsible while confronting increasingly strange questions about humanity, knowledge, and existence.
Cast: Morgan Freeman, Scarlett Johansson, Choi Min-sik, Amr Waked, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Pilou Asbæk, Lio Tipton, Shin Yoo-ram, Seo Chong-ju, Nicolas Phongpheth, Paul Lefèvre, Jan Oliver Schroeder
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Trivia & production notes
- Luc Besson structured Lucy in three distinct stylistic acts, drawing inspiration from his own Léon: The Professional for the first part, Inception for the second, and 2001: A Space Odyssey for the third.
- Besson drew inspiration for the film's concept from Lucy, a female Australopithecus afarensis whose 400-gram brain contrasts sharply with the modern human brain weight of approximately 1.4 kilograms.
- Lucy contains over 1,000 visual effects shots, making it the most effects-heavy film directed by Besson.
- Industrial Light & Magic studied chemical reactions, laser lighting displays from raves, and artist Perry Hall's work from What Dreams May Come to create Lucy's distinctive visual effects.
- Lucy was the second-largest French film production in 2013 with a budget of 48 million euros and represented the biggest production investment ever for Besson's company EuropaCorp.
- Principal photography took place at the Cité du Cinéma, a newly built megastudio on the outskirts of Paris, with additional filming in Taipei including scenes at Taipei 101.
- Besson grew frustrated during filming in Taiwan due to paparazzi and media attention disrupting the shoot, stating that nighttime filming became a nightmare because of intrusions from unnamed Hong Kong agencies.
- Some footage for Lucy was shot using IMAX cameras.
- Éric Serra composed the score for Lucy, continuing his work with Besson on all his films except Angel-A and The Family.
- The film incorporates Mozart's Requiem Introitus during Lucy's moment of awakening in the score.
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