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David Fincher Says He Met for Star Wars: Episode VII

Talking to Total Film, Fincher admitted that directing Episode VII wouldn’t be an easy prospect, and although he likes Empire Strikes Back, he feels he wouldn’t get the opportunity to make a movie in the vein of the series’ darkest chapter (sorry, Revenge of the Sith; first you have to make me care about the characters):

“It’s tricky,” he adds. “My favourite is The Empire Strikes Back. If I said, ‘I want to do something more like that,’ then I’m sure the people paying for it would be like, ‘No! You can’t do that! We want it like the other one with all the creatures!’

He may need to be a little bit more specific.

Fincher also sees A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back in a way I’ve never heard before:

“I always thought of Star Wars as the story of two slaves [C-3PO and R2-D2] who go from owner to owner, witnessing their masters’ folly, the ultimate folly of man… I thought it was an interesting idea in the first two, but it’s kind of gone by Return Of The Jedi.”

So Fincher sees Star Wars as the story of slaves, and his favorite in the series is the darkest one. Yep. That sounds about right.
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