While appearing on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Zack Snyder has confirmed that he was looking at helming a Star Wars spinoff movie for Lucasfilm, and he shares its current status.
Rumors that Snyder was getting his own Star Wars standalone circulated heavily back in early 2013, while the filmmaker was launching his Superman reboot, Man of Steel, into theaters, but the accuracy of those reports were heavily disputed by industry insiders and trades. Now, thanks to Snyder himself, we know that the story first broken by Vulture was indeed accurate – and ironically it may be that same inside scoop that may have been responsible for killing Zack Snyder’s Star Wars movie before it got off the ground.
While appearing on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Zack Snyder was asked directly about the Akira Kurosawa-inspired Star Wars films he was rumored to be circling in the 2010s. According to the Justice League and Army of the Dead filmmaker:
“Yeah… we talked about it but it never… you know. I’ve been working on it – just away from the Star Wars universe – just on my own, just as a sci-fi thing… It’s still a sci-fi thing, it’s the same story, just kind of now I let Star Wars be Star Wars and I’m just gonna… you know. The eleven-year-old me still wants to make that, now I just know how to – so maybe we’ll see that someday.”
As for the Star Wars version of that sci-fi project, Snyder wouldn’t confirm that there were familiar characters involved in it, just that he wanted Lucasfilm to “Give me the keys, let me take her [the franchise] for a spin.” He added that during that time of creative limbo (after George Lucas’ Prequel Trilogy but before Disney started its run of the franchise) he was confident he could fix the somewhat broken franchise.
