In a new interview with the Happy Sad Confused podcast, director and producer Shawn Levy (Stranger Things, Deadpool 3) was asked about what Star Wars means to him, and shared that his Star Wars movie will be a standalone experience.
When asked by the Happy Sad Confused podcast what Star Wars meant to him, Levy detailed, “I’ll say that the experience of crafting this story has forced me to think about that question. Because there’s only so many times that Star Wars movies can revisit the same section of the timeline, and so it’s really forced me — because I don’t want to do a Star Wars movie that is redundant to others, nor am I interested in doing one that has to serve another movie.”
He added, “I really wanted to craft something that felt organic to me, both in tone and characters, so I think that there is certainly the Force and a connection to something bigger than our individual selves. And the way that that can make us powerful, those themes, combined with visual delight and wish fulfillment, that’s Star Wars to me.”
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