Luc Besson directs this 2014 French production built around an international cast headlined by Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, and Choi Min-sik.
What is Lucy about?
Rather than resting on a single national setting, the film moves through an international backdrop that matches its cast list, pairing Johansson opposite Freeman as well as South Korean star Choi Min-sik and Egyptian actor Amr Waked. Besson, working from his own script, blends the biography, comedy, and drama the catalogue files it under into a single production rather than keeping the tones separate scene by scene. K-Time's own listing places the film's genres side by side deliberately, and the mixed billing is part of what makes the project distinct from a straightforward genre piece — it asks its cast to shift registers across a single story rather than sit in one lane throughout. The result is a film shaped as much by who is in it as by any single plot description, carried by performers already known individually for very different kinds of work.
About the cast
Scarlett Johansson leads the cast, with Morgan Freeman in a supporting role that pairs two of the most recognizable names Besson could have cast for an international production. Choi Min-sik brings his own reputation from Korean cinema, while Amr Waked, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Pilou Asbæk, Analeigh Tipton, and Shin Chang-soo fill out an ensemble drawn from several different film industries at once.
Context & significance
Besson has built much of his career on French productions with international reach, and this film continues that pattern by assembling a cast that spans Hollywood, Korean, and European cinema under one project. The choice to file it under biography, comedy, and drama at once signals a film unwilling to sit inside a single tradition, closer in spirit to Besson's other genre-crossing work than to a conventional single-lane drama.
Watching Lucy on Ktime
Lucy streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, both available with a free account login and no purchase or trial step involved. K-Time's Farsi-first design makes it a straightforward pick for Iranian diaspora viewers who want to watch a Besson-directed international production in their own language.