A year after the project was first announced, Cara Delevingne’s hotly-anticipated sci-fi epic, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, is finally starting to surface. In a special behind-the-scenes story shot for MTV, the model slash actress revealed a little more about the mysterious Luc Besson-directed movie – which is apparently based on the french comic Valerian and Laureline.

“I love it so much,” she reveals in the two-minute clip. “My kind of tomboy comes out, it's always what I've wanted to do, especially as a kid. I feel like I'm kind of living my dream.”

The film reportedly follows two time-hopping secret agents, played by Dane DeHaan and Delevingne, who travel across time and space to save the human race. Rihanna is also set to make appearance – as seen in the clip below – though details on who the “BBHMM” singer is playing have been kept under wraps.

Valerian is not set for release until July 2017, but you can get your first glimpse below. The film has also been blessed with its own Instagram account – so you can follow the filming in real time.