HBO Max is ending the streaming run of a Luc Besson science fiction film, an independently-financed passion project based on comic books the director grew up reading. The film combined the visual style of Blade Runner with the adventure tone of The Adventures of Tintin.

Despite receiving a $205 million budget—making it the most expensive independently-financed film ever produced—the movie achieved only $225 million in worldwide box office revenue. When accounting for marketing and distribution expenses, the film required roughly $400 million in total earnings to break even, making it one of the decade's most significant commercial disasters in the science fiction genre.