Who should be the Director for Star Wars Episode 7?

[lurok]

Anyone who knows anything about Lucas' artistic roots would know why he dislikes directing studio films but still directed the prequels. It's easy to google.

I don't get the cheerleading/love for Vaughn, but think Bird is a good choice, with Whedon on board for writing duties.

Just to add another name in the mix: Peter Berg. Decent action/sf director.

Would love to see Horner or Debney get a crack at the score.

[Temis the Vorta]

Rumor du jour, director of Safety Not Guaranted? Story.

[lurok]

For some strange reason Alien:Resurrection, Wanted and Catwoman come to mind. Never, never let a Euro auteur loose on a Hollywood franchise.

[JD]

Mark Millar has discussed why Vaughn left X-Men: Days of Futures Past, and it had nothing to do with SW.

[Mach5]

Cthulurok wrote:

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For some strange reason Alien:Resurrection, Wanted and Catwoman come to mind. Never, never let a Euro auteur loose on a Hollywood franchise.

LOL, Timur Bekmambetov is a Euro auteur now?

Have you seen The Darkest Hour? That's some Uwe Boll grade shit, my friend.

[Kegg]

Colin Trevorrow is American. Considering Lynch was up for Jedi, an American director of an acclaimed and unusual indie film sounds suspiciously plausible.

And yeah Timur is really more of an action film director and Pitof is just some effects guy. Of the three Jeunet is the only one with actual auteur cred (by virtue of the brilliant Delicatessen, City of the Lost Children and Amelie).

And Alien: Resurrection was in fairness more Whedon's fault (a truly dire script with some idiotic ideas and wretched dialogue) than Jeunet's.

Also: The Welsh Richard Marquand directed Return of the Jedi, so Star Wars has been down the european director route before.

Does make me think which European directors would work for Star Wars. I suppose one could make a case for Luc Besson (mostly due to The Fifth Element), though I'm not his biggest fan.

[lurok]

I know Trevorrow's American. It was a tongue-in-cheek comment on arthouse/indie-meeting-Hollywood (hence the wink, and esp given Lucas' own proclivities) but can see why led to confusion. But I agree re: Whedon/Alien 4 and had forgotten Lynch was asked to do RoTJ. I personally think Lynch's Dune is a great example of what a genuinely visionary director can do with a SF epic, for all its flaws

[Set Harth]

I think it's also a great example of critics being dopes.

[teacake]

Well I'm sure we've all seen this:

J. J. Abrams, the director/producer of "Star Trek Into Darkness", will be one of the directors offered a chance to direct the next "Star Wars" movie.

http://trekweb.com/articles/2012/11/...II-Movie.shtml

[Hound of UIster]

Except according to that source Steven Spielberg is also directing one movie, something which he has outright denied.

[Turtletrekker]

Spielberg says "no".

[Avalon]

I'd love to see what Tarsem Singh would do with a Star Wars movie. THE FALL was both gorgeous and heartbreaking.

I wonder if they'll consider Gore Verbinski, though (in light of the PotC franchise)?

[Kegg]

http://blog.fanhattan.com/2012/11/09...yder-weigh-in/
http://www.slashfilm.com/who-wants-t...orrow-respond/

J.J. Abrams, Zack Snyder, Quentin Tarantino, Steven Spielberg, the list of names rejecting direction of Star Wars is a veriable who's-who of Hollywood.

Also Jon Favreau and Colin Trevorrow are a bit gunshy.

[Ian Keldon]

Wonder why all the names are bowing out?

[Kegg]

Ian Keldon wrote:

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Wonder why all the names are bowing out?

Most of these cases aren't them bowing out of contention so much as it was interviewers asking them about it. And both Zack Snyder and J.J Abrams are currently tied to tent-pole franchise pictures which have yet to be released.