Commander Arun Filitt

What did you expect me to do!?|Filitt revealing his true natureCommander Arun Filitt is the hidden main antagonist in the 2017 film Valerian and the City of Thousand Planets.

He was portrayed by Clive Owen, who also played Professor.

About
Arun Filitt was a respected commander who led his forces to invade and annihilate the Planet Mul, a planet which was populated by a civilization called Pearls. He was the one who destroyed the Planet Mul by using a nuclear weapon. After the destruction of Mul, a few survivors esacaped and construct a spaceship to recreate their planet.

In the film
After Valerian and Laureline returns to Alpha, Filitt informs them Alpha's center has been infected by an unknown force - where the troopers sent to there and not return. Valerian and Laureline are assigned to protect him. He was later seen torturing a Pearl.

During the summit, Pearls start to attack the room and kidnap him to their lair on Alpha. Valerian chases their ship, but loses control and crashlands his vehicle.

The two venture into the area, discovering that it is not toxic. They reach a shield-like hall where the Filitt was there. They met with Pearls' leader, Emperor Haban-Limai, who explains them his people were lived peacefullly on their home planet - until a war broke out between humans and an unknown species. Filitt orders to launch the doomsday weapon to destroy the enemy fleet's mothership, which eventually crashes and destroys the planet. Valerian and Laureline realizes that he was the one who destroyed the planet.

He then orders his K-Tron robots to attack both the human soldiers and Pearls, but they are defeated by human soldiers. He was later arrested by Federation.