Director Denis Villeneuve just confirmed that he never wants to be responsible for the film Star wars. Director of the famous film Dune and one of the best sci-fi directors of the last decade has abandoned the legendary franchise. Seeing him in the saga was a big dream of thousands of fans, convinced that his style could lead him to create one of the best films in galactic history. However, he made it clear that this is not part of his plans for the future.
Denis Villeneuve explained that it would never fit Star wars. And the fault is, in fact, his own. George Lucas. This is all due to the traumatic experience that the director received as a teenager. Because as a child he admits that Star Wars: Ep. V. The Empire Strikes Back This changed his life for the better. “I was the target audience. I was 10 years old. It went into my brain like a bullet. I became obsessed Star wars. The Empire Strikes Back This is the film I was looking forward to most in my life. I’ve seen this movie on screen a billion times,” he says in a podcast interview. City.
But everything changed in the next part. Star Wars: Ep. VI – Return of the Jedi. “The problem is that in 1983 everything went wrong. Return of the Jedi. It’s a long story. I was 15 years old and my best friend and I wanted to take a taxi and go to Los Angeles and talk to George Lucas. We were very angry! Even today Ewoks… It turned out to be a children’s comedy,” he laments. Denis Villeneuve.
Clearly, the director’s words are a direct attack on the final installment of the beloved original trilogy. Star wars. On a general level it is true that this is considered Return of the Jedi as the worst of the three parts, but this does not mean that it is as unsuccessful a film as Denis Villeneuve remembers her. Be that as it may, the truth is that it was at this point that the director lost his love for the galactic saga, and for this reason he admits that he does not want to make a film in the future. “Star wars This crystallized into its own mythology, very dogmatic, it seemed like a recipe, there were no more surprises. So what I don’t dream of doing Star wars because it seems to me that the code is already heavily decoded,” he concludes.
Other alternatives to Denis Villeneuve
At the moment, Denis Villeneuve is in early stages of development dune 3. With its help, the Canadian will complete his trilogy and abandon the franchise, since he is not so interested in the rest of the history of the books. But with no upcoming projects other than Star wars He also ruled out other opportunities that might invite him to return to science fiction.
To begin with, he assures that he would not join the saga of Star Trek. “I’m not a Trekkie,” he admits simply. And then he also looks away from the possibility of signing with Netflix, like other great directors do. “The big screen is part of the language, allowing us to share a story together, to have the shared emotional experience of watching a movie in a room. We are not made to be alone, we are made to share together… I think the movie theater experience will win,” defends himself.
Source: Hiper Textual
