“[The script for The Fifth Element] was actually 180 pages, and then [Luc Besson] added a second part to it, which made no sense either.
We were going to do it as a sequel, but it made no sense, and The Fifth Element wasn’t big enough here.
When it comes to sci-fi cinema, few movies are as bizarrely entertaining as The Fifth Element, the 1997 English-language French science-fiction action film directed and co-written by Luc Besson.
Kamen naturally concluded that was the last he would ever hear about The Fifth Element.