Zack Snyder’s Star Wars project is still alive, but is now a standalone, original sci-fi movie.
Snyder talked about his unmade Star Wars film during an appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast. First reported on in Jan. 2013, the movie was described as a Jedi epic loosely inspired by Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 film Seven Samurai. Kurosawa’s classic adventure, which centers on a group of samurai that are hired by a small village to protect them from bandits, was a major influence on George Lucas’ vision for 1977’s Star Wars: A New Hope. In fact, Lucas even tried to cast Seven Samurai star Toshiro Mifune as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the movie, prior to recruiting Alec Guinness.
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“We talked about it, but it never [happened],” said Snyder. “I’ve been working on it away from the Star Wars universe, on my own, as a sci-fi thing… It’s still a sci-fi thing. It’s the same story. Now, I’m just going to let Star Wars be Star Wars.” He went on to emphasize that he hasn’t given up on the project, either. “The 11-year-old me still wants to make that, and now, I know how to. So, maybe we’ll see that someday.”
Following the release of his Justice League cut and zombie action/horror movie Army of the Dead, Snyder has his eyes set on directing his long-developing drama Horse Latitudes (which was formerly titled The Last Photograph). “Right now, we’re just waiting a little bit, because the hope is to shoot [Horse Latitudes on location] in South America,” said Snyder in a recent update. “Because [COVID-19] right now is pretty intense in that part of the world, so we’re just waiting for hopefully some relief in order to get up and make that one.”
Beyond that, Snyder has a number of movies he hopes to make, including a prospective religious or pornographic film, if not one that blends the two genres. He’s also working on a King Arthur adaptation, describing it as a “real sort of faithful retelling of that Arthurian mythological concept.” In addition, he hasn’t ruled out the possibility of an Army of the Dead sequel. “If there was ever a desire for more Army of the Dead, [co-writer Shay Hatten] and I know exactly where the story goes,” he recently teased.
Source: Happy Sad Confused, via IndieWire
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