Before Disney pick out J.J. Abrams as the man creditworthy for usher in a new era of Star Wars , Gone Girl ’s David Fincher met with Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy about the possibility of directing Episode VII back in 2012 . Whoa .
concord to / Film , Kennedy want Fincher for the job , but Fincher turned it down . But free-base on his quotes during an interview withTotal Film , it does n’t really seem like they saw heart - to - eye on the plastic film anyways . Here ’s Fincher :
“ It ’s guileful , ” he adds . “ My darling is The Empire Strikes Back . If I say , ‘ I want to do something more like that , ’ then I ’m sure the citizenry paying for it would be like , ‘ No ! You ca n’t do that ! We want it like the other one with all the creatures ! ’
“ I always thought of Star Wars as the narration of two slaves [ C-3PO and R2 - D2 ] who go from owner to possessor , see their masters ’ indulgence , the ultimate betise of man … I cerebrate it was an interesting idea in the first two , but it ’s kind of move by Return Of The Jedi . ”
Uh … well , I can see why Kennedy would n’t be tiptop - aroused about that take . A moving picture about “ the ultimate folly of man ” probably would n’t sell as many action figures and thyroxine - shirt as J.J. Abrams ’ Episode VII will . Still , I inquire what might have been …
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