Luc Besson is best known as the Frenchman with the fancy-sounding name who has brought all kinds of lowbrow entertainment to our shores, from La Femme Nikita way back in 1990 to his producing duties on From Paris With Love and the Transporter series. But he's also got a sensitive side, as evidenced by the recent arty Angel-A, and he's tapping into it with his next project. THR reports he's currently shopping an untitled romance script, and would direct it as his first English-language project since 1999's Joan of Arc.

Besson is moving quickly, aiming to start production in the fall and seeking out casting even as he shops the script to studios. He probably knows as well as anyone that his films can be made cheaply and tend to make a lot of money, and even in English his films do fairly well. I mean, really, he's the guy who produced Taken; he can do pretty much whatever he wants at this point for a price. It seems doubtful that his love story will involve Liam Neeson rampaging through Europe and punching people in the throat, but if he can fit that in there somehow, I imagine he's got himself a deal.

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