"After taking his story through second and third drafts, Besson,
working with screenwriter Robert Mark Kamen, decided to divide the
epic story into two grand acts. "We had to do that in order to make
this film possible to shoot," he explains. "So if there is any call
for it, a sequel is already written, though that didn't happen by
plan."

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