There will be a chance for fans to familiarize themselves with the content, however, as Amazon is currently listing a new edition of the first two books in the series with a release date of June 1, 2017.
That book has never been translated into English before.
Even people who are fans will want to pick this one up, as it will contain issue 0, a book written after the first, but numbered and set beforehand.
Valérian and Laureline was created by Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mézières in the 1960s and while the comic actually ran until 2010, it’s probably not as well known to the average movie fan as anything from Marvel or DC.