10 Best Fictional Planets In Sci-Fi Movies
4. Mül, Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets
The magnificent Mül is one of the very first planets we see in Luc Besson's spiritual successor to The Fifth Element, Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets (2017), and it is one of the finest in any fictional universe.
With a mother of pearl sheen to its surface, when viewed from land or space, Mül mirrors its bald, tribal natives, the Pearls, whose skin glitters and whose lives are spent collecting magical pearls by vast, peaceful oceans (no-one tell Dr Miller!). The planet's surface is replete with sand, shells and organic structures that its inhabitants live in, alongside turquoise waters, Mediterranean-esque beaches and the perfect amount of sun.
Idyllic.
Or, it was, until future humanity and another warring alien race took their fight to the skies above Mül and brought shrapnel, fire and ruin raining down from the heavens, annihilating not just the planet's harmonious natural habitat, but the planet itself. The Pearls fled to outer space, calling a ship home and searching for a new Mül - as if there could ever be another.