Discussion Who Should Direct Future SW Films?

I still have faith in Jones.

 

TBH, I still expect Jones to land a SW gig. And he deserves it.

 

He's part of the Twitter Cool Directors squad. A bunch of directors that chat.

I think perhaps he has to successfully helm another $200 million blockbuster before he gets the gig.

Warcraft wasn't a bad movie. Just something that was never going to work out.

 

True about Warcraft. In fact, I actually like it.

 

After watching Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and War of the Planet of the Apes, I'd love to see Matt Reeves make a Star Wars film.

 

Watched BR 2049 a second time, and I liked it a whole lot more. Wallace is still a significant weak link (and the replicant resistant plot is too perfunctory) but there is just so much good in this film. The top 5 on my dream director list for a truly different Star Wars Anthology is now;

1. Cuaron
2. Villeneuve
3. Sapochnik
4. Bigelow
5. Soderberg

 

Hello,

I would love to see Nicolas Winding Refn do the Boba Fett anthology film.

 

David Fincher talks about the pressures and perils of taking on Star Wars. Looks like he and Kennedy might have discussed it at one point.

http://collider.com/david-fincher-star-wars-sequels/#images

No, I talked to [producer Kathleen Kennedy] about that and look, it’s a plum assignment. I don’t know what’s worse: being George Lucas on the set of the first one where everyone’s going, “Alderaan? What the hell is this?” Where everyone’s making fun, but I can’t imagine the kind of intestinal fortitude one has to have following up the success of these last two. That’s a whole other level. One is that you have to endure the withering abuse of Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher, and the other is you have to live up to a billion or a billion-five, and that becomes its own kind of pressure.

I think [The Empire Strikes Back director Irvin Kershner] had the best job. He had a pretty great script and he had the middle story. He didn’t have to worry about where it started and he didn’t have to worry about where it ended. And he had the great reveal.

You’d have to really clear your head, I think. You’d have to really be sure this is what you wanted to do because either way it’s two years of your life, 14 hours a day, seven days a week.

 

I'm sure Kathleen does lunch with plenty of Hollywood people. Plenty of director chats.

"you have to live up to a billion or a billion-five, and that becomes its own kind of pressure."

That's the deal now. You can't be that guy who made the first Star Wars movie that didn't take in the cash. Not enough to just be profitable.

 

Yeah, and while Fincher has tread the franchise waters before (he's got the World War Z sequel lined up next), it's tough for me to imagine him taking on Star Wars, given his uncompromising reputation.

 

Robert Zemeckis

He is directing an DC Movie right? Anyway, i would like a SW Movie in style and tone of Forrest Gump.

Some random Mandalorian who's grown up during Satines Rule and Mauls takeover of the Leadership. Who fights later under the Command of Bo-Katan against the Empire, and later, when the Empire Falls, is searching for his (or hers) Family that was taken apart during the civil war.

 

Well, Joe Johnston just announced he's retiring after he's completed his next film, The Silver Chair. I'm bummed, because I really wanted Johnston to tackle one of the SW anthology films.

 

Sergio Leone.

 

Denis Villeneuve expresses some interest in tackling Star Wars.

https://theplaylist.net/denis-villenuve-star-wars-20171129/

 

Yes please. I just saw Arrival. Utterly breathtaking.

 

I'm on the record for preferring that Villeneuve work on his own material, but perhaps there's an opportunity for him to direct the second film in Rian Johnson's new trilogy?

 

He praises Rogue One for doing something a bit different. He'd want to put his own spin on a movie. It would be interesting to see how much he could get away with.

 

id love to see the duffer brothers get a crack at it, or Ava Duvernay, speilberg would be great, I wouldn't like BLADE RUNNERS 2049s look in star wars its to techy for star wars in my opinion to sci-fi if you will.

 

Matt Reeves!!!!

 

I'd happily go for that.

 

I would actually rather he concentrates on Dune. I think that's right up his alley, actually.

 

On the one hand, I want a director who hasn't made any films for a preexisting franchise, and on the other hand, I'd prefer those types of directors continue to pursue non-franchise material. Neil Blomkamp directing a Boba Fett film remains my most ideal aspiration.

 

Yep, Neil Blomkamp is definitely a director who I would like to see dip his toes into an established IP, yet at the same time I want him to continue making his own stuff. I'm still waiting for a sequel to District 9, although I sadly think the chances are slim.