We are in 2012. George Lucas, the owner of Star Wars and its sequels, recently sold his company Lucasfilm to the Disney firm. After making this expensive $4 billion purchase, the House of Mickey hopes to launch the new Star Wars trilogy quickly enough to make its investment profitable.
Among the candidates to offer the script, we find Zack Snyder, who recently directed Man of Steel and who does not yet know that Warner will offer him to be the master of the connected universe of DC Comics. And Snyder is taking Disney the wrong way, as he said Empire :
There was this moment when somehow everything was possible. I told them, “I don’t want any of your characters, I don’t want to do your celebrity stuff, I just want to do my thing. And at first, I told myself it should be rated R! which was almost doomed to failure.
Please note that in the United States, an “R” rating for a movie means that it is prohibited for children under the age of 17 who are accompanied by an adult. This classification is mandatory for certain graphic violence films that contain nudity, explicit sex, profanity or drug use. In other words: fewer entries, because teenagers are deprived of the movie theater if they can’t get their parents in the room. However, teenagers are an important part of cinema attendance.
But how could Snyder imagine that Disney would allow them to be deprived of this financial income? In fact, he didn’t believe it himself:
“To tell you the truth, I knew it was a big ask. But the more I dug into myself, the more I realized it was probably never going to be what I expected.”
That’s why Snyder’s project never saw the light of day. What did his film have to say to be so bloody? Snyder makes a comparison that probably wouldn’t upset the creator of Star Wars:
It was “Seven Samurai” in space. I knew that at first Giorgi was very close to Kurosawa’s films.
Indeed, Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s Spider-Man is often cited as one of the main influences on the Star Wars films, but the locked transitions are also borrowed from the director’s other feature films, and his many Saber films of course. Some inspiration for the lightsaber fight.
Today, Zack Snyder is making his Star Wars dream come true with Rebel Moon, coming to Netflix next December.
Meanwhile, the new Star Wars movies are underway after a mixed reception to the post-release. While some of them may try a “Snyder-like” approach by moving away from established characters, the most advanced project currently involves Rey’s return in an adventure that tells the story of the creation of a new Jedi order. The action takes place 15 years after the rise of Skywalker.
Source: Allocine
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