Matthew Vaughn Would Want to Remake Original ‘Star Wars’ Movies With New Cast: “Let’s Bring It On”
"Why are the characters so hallowed that from 1977 you can’t re-do it for a new audience?" the filmmaker said.
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“For me, doing a Star Wars movie is to play with the characters that I loved,” he said on a recent episode of the Happy Sad Confused podcast. “If they said to me, do you want to reboot Star Wars and actually have Luke Skywalker, Solo and Vader and do your version of it? Everyone would say you’re an idiot to try, but that would excite me. … Why are the characters so hallowed that from 1977 that you can’t re-do it for a new audience?”
“That’s what I would do,” he said. “Everyone is going to go batshit crazy, but let’s bring it on. If you want a new generation, make the movie for them. The old generation, hopefully, you make it well enough that they go, ‘Oh, OK, I’m enjoying it.'”
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