Now You See Me and Fast X filmmaker Louis Leterrier was not too long ago a visitor on Josh Horowitz’s newest podcast “Watch-a-long”, the place the 2 of them did a reside commentary on The Incredible Hulk, which Leterrier directed. Horowitz raised the subject of Star Wars to the director, asking if he’d ever be all in favour of working for Lucasfilm, and bought a stunning reply.
Apparently, Leterrier had pitched a TV collection to Lucasfilm years in the past a couple of “lone wolf and a cub”. He then added that he had two pitches, one pre-A New Hope centered on Luke and Obi-Wan, and one other centered on Boba Fett. In his personal phrases:
“I had my dream Star Wars concept a very long time in the past, after I got here to them and pitched it: ‘We ought to do a Star Wars TV present conceived as a lone wolf and cub’. And they mentioned ‘Uh, we don’t know if that’s a terrific concept’.
It was two issues. I needed to do the lacking half between… Basically earlier than A New Hope when Obi-Wan takes Luke. I needed to try this. But I used to be additionally very within the Boba Fett film.”
He then mentioned he had no downside with the truth that Lucasfilm ended up creating these ideas with different folks even if they’d handed on his take first. But after all, there are loads of particulars lacking right here. We assume that this occurred round 2017, when Lucasfilm was taking pitches for Disney Plus collection — however at the moment, the Obi-Wan idea was being labored on as a movie, and Boba Fett was additionally going to be a film with James Mangold.
Leterrier was after all mild on specifics. For occasion, what was the “lone wolf and cub” concept? Was that Obi-Wan and Luke? It undoubtedly sounds prefer it, however once more, that had a lifetime of its personal with different creatives. Should they possibly have gone again to him as soon as they determined to show it right into a Disney Plus collection? Perhaps, however Deborah Chow additionally appeared like such a logical option to direct on the time.
But regardless of all of that, it’s all the time attention-grabbing to listen to about completely different creatives pitching concepts to Lucasfilm, and seeing what nearly caught and what landed elsewhere. Most not too long ago, as an illustration, we bought affirmation that Guillermo del Toro was fairly far alongside in his Jabba the Hutt movie which David S. Goyer was scripting. Goyer had additionally begun improvement on a Dawn of the Jedi movie even earlier than James Mangold.
Miguel Fernández is a Spanish scholar that has motion pictures as his second ardour in life. His favourite film of all time is The Lord of the Rings, however he’s additionally an enormous Star Wars fan. However, fantasy motion pictures usually are not his solely cup of tea, as motion pictures from Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he began to grasp the language of filmmaking. He is that man who will watch a black and white film, simply because it’s in black and white.
