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J.J. Abrams is the man responsible for bringing Star Wars back to cinematic life, but there was a time where that might not have been the case. Director David Fincher has revealed that he was, at one point, talking to Lucasfilm about directing Star Wars: Episode VII.
”I talked to [Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy] about it, but I think that it’s a different thing from… I don’t know what Disney-Lucasfilm will be like,” the Gone Girl director told Total Film in a recent interview. “It’s tricky… My favorite is The Empire Strikes Back. If I said, ‘I want to do something more like that,’ then I’m sure the people paying for it would be like, ‘No! You can’t do that! We want it like the other one with all the creatures!’”
He went on to say that he saw Star Wars as “the story of two slaves [C-3PO and R2-D2] who go from owner to owner, witnessing their masters’ folly, the ultimate folly of man… I thought it was an interesting idea in the first two, but it’s kind of gone by Return Of The Jedi.”
While that might be a surprising take on the first couple of Star Wars movies, Fincher is certainly someone who would know about Return of the Jedi; Fincher worked on the movie as an assistant cameraman, back in the day.
While Fincher may not be attached to the Disney franchise now — although, with a number of spin-off movies planned, that could easily change in the future — his comments do serve some purpose for the Star Wars faithful. No matter how good Episode VII ends up being, there will now always be a sub-section of fans who will passionately argue that it’s not as good as if Fincher had directed.
Read more Even C-3PO Will Forgo CGI in ‘Star Wars: Episode VII’
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