Chase Leelo With 'The Fifth Element' Storyboards

The Fifth Element (1997) has some amazing visuals. Looking at the storyboards by Collin Grant, who also worked on Superman Returns (2006) The Matrix (1999) X-Men 2 (2003), we can see quite a few differences between the storyboards and the film. For one thing, Leeloo is wearing clothes instead of bandages. On the other hand, the dizzying highs and emotional range is all there. You really feel the fear of standing on a ledge hundreds of miles in the sky.

Synopsis: With a deadly race of aliens ready to destroy Earth, a second race, allied with the humans, send a young girl, Leeloo (Milla Jovovich), who is the fifth element, or supreme being. Her goal is to retrieve four stones and activate them in a temple in Egypt to save Earth from destruction.

Unfortunately things don't go smoothly and she requires the help of a number of humans, namely a priest (Holm) and a cab driver / ex-military expert, Korben Dallas (Bruce Willis). Others, such as Mr. Zorg (Gary Oldman) and an army of alien shape-shifting mercenaries are also interested in the stones and the race to find them begins.

Here's the scene as filmed for comparison



You can see more of Collin Grant's portfolio at http://uke5.com/.