He wants to adapt the first Star Wars: “If you want a new generation of viewers, make a movie for them”

X-Men: The Beginning and the Kick-Ass and Kingsman saga director Matthew Vaughn has some ideas for another popular franchise…

In a recent episode of the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast, he expressed interest in rebooting George Lucas’ original Star Wars films, starting with A New Hope (1977), with a new set of actors playing Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill). ), Leia (Carrie Fisher), Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and Darth Vader (voiced by James Earl Jones).

For me, making a Star Wars movie is about playing with the characters I’ve loved. If they told me you want to reboot Star Wars and have Luke Skywalker and Solo and Vader and make your own version of it? Everyone would call me an idiot for trying, but I was converted. Why are the characters so sacred from 1977 that we can’t remake them for a new audience?

The director also explained that to him, Star Wars is the Skywalker family, and he feels that Lucasfilm and Disney have distanced themselves from the original group of people, and that’s where he thinks they went wrong. He shared that for him, the series is still good, but the franchise is missing a new epic movie.

That’s what I would do. Everyone’s going crazy, but let’s go. If you want a new generation, make a film for them. For the older generation, I hope it does it well enough that they say, “Ok well, I appreciate that.”

However, the next step for this Matthew Vaughan It’s not the new Star Wars movie, but the spy movie Argylle, starring Henry Cavill, Bryce Dallas Howard, Dua Lipa, Sam Rockwell, Bryan Cranston, Kathryn O’Hara, John Cena, Ariana Debose and Samuel L. with Jackson.

The thriller, slated for release on January 31, 2024, follows Argyle (Henry Cavill), a fictional super spy created by writer Eli Conway (Bryce Dallas Howard), whose life is turned upside down when his new book gets a little too close to the real lives of real spies who then start hunting him.

Real Star Wars Projects

by all means, Matthew Vaughan Probably won’t be able to remake the original movies anytime soon. As Kathleen Kennedy told Vanity Fair last year, Lucasfilm is now focused on expanding the universe. George Lucas beyond the Skywalker saga and has no plans to tell new stories with new actors portraying the iconic characters.

As the Hollywood Reporter recalls, after the failure of Solo: A Star Wars Story, which cast another actor as a young Han Solo, Kathleen Kennedy announced: “We also can’t do anything with a Luke Skywalker that isn’t Mark Hamill. We are not going to suddenly do it.“

Since Ahsoka’s recent debut, the franchise has released Disney+ series The Acolyte and Skeleton Crew starring Jude Law, while new films include a sequel starring Daisy Ridley called Star Wars: New Jedi Order (2026) and a prequel film directed by James. Mangold on Dawn of the Jedi.

The entire Star Wars saga can still be seen streaming on Disney+.