“Star Wars”, (aka “Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope”), Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, 1977.
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X-Men: First Class Director Matthew Vaughn has some ideas for another popular franchise.
The director would be interested in rebooting the original Star Wars films with a new cast of actors playing Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and Darth Vader (voiced by James Earl Jones).
“For me, doing one Star Wars film is to play with the characters I’ve come to love,” he said in a recent episode of Happy Sad Confused podcast. “If they told me, you want to reboot Star Wars and you really have Luke Skywalker, Solo and Vader and make your own version? Everyone would say you’re stupid for trying, but that would excite me. … Why are the characters so hallowed that since 1977 you can’t do it again for a new audience?”
He explained it Star Wars it’s the Skywalker family, and he feels that Lucasfilm and Disney have gotten away from that original group of people, and that’s where he thinks they’ve gone wrong. He shared that, for him, the TV shows are still good, but the franchise is missing an epic new movie.
“That’s what I would do,” he said. “Everybody’s going to go crazy, but let’s get on with it. If you want a new generation, make the movie for them. The older generation will hopefully do well enough to say, “Oh, okay, I’m enjoying it.”
But Vaughn probably won’t get the chance to remake the original any time soon films, as Kathleen Kennedy said Vanity fair last year that Lucasfilm focused on expanding the George Lucas universe beyond the Skywalker saga and has no plans to tell new stories with new actors playing the iconic characters. Her comments came after a negative reception Solo: A Star Wars Story.
“Also, we can’t do something with Luke Skywalker that isn’t Mark Hamill,” he said in the interview. “We’re not going to suddenly go and try to do this.”
What’s next for Vaughn, however, is nothing new Star Wars film. It is the picture of the whole Argyll, Starring Dua Lipa, Henry Cavill, Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Rockwell, Bryan Cranston, Catherine O’Hara, John Cena, Ariana DeBose and Samuel L. Jackson.
The thriller follows Cavill’s Argylle, a fictional super spy created by author Ellie Conway (Howard), whose life is turned upside down when her new book comes too close to the real lives of the real spies who hunt her down when they read it.
Arigli hits theaters February 2, 2024.
Carly Thomas contributed to this report.
