Zack Snyder's Star Wars movie is now an original project

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澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Zack Snyder has reve🍸aled he did have a Star Wars idea after all, but it's now being wꦿorked on as an original project.

reported back in 2013 that Snyder had a movie inspired by Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai in the works at 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Lucasfilm. The movie would have foc♍used on a group of Jedi, but would not have beꦅen connected to the Skywalker Saga.

podcast. "But it never – 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 it's... I'm kind of, let Star Wars be Star Wars... The 11 year old me still wants to make that, now I just know how to, so maybe we'll see that someday."

The director also confirmed that the movie would not have featured any familiar Star Wars characters: "My idea was just, give me the keys and I'll take her for a spin… At that time, there was no Star Wars, Star Wars wasn't really – it was that middle time, it was right after they had done the prequels and before the sale [to Disney]... I just𝓰 was like, 'You know what? I can fix that. I can do something.'"

Kurosawa served as an inspiration for George Lucas' original Star Wars trilogy, and his influence can also be felt in The Mandalorian – so it's not surprising that Snyder's idea also drew from his work. It's also not surprising that the project never moved forward: in 2013, Snyder was busy with the DCEU, with 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Man of Steel releasing that summer.

Following the prequel trilogy, the next Star Wars movie to hit the big screen was 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Force Awakens, directed by J.J. Abrams. The sequel trilogy, which also comprises 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Last Jedi and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Rise of Skywalker, received a mixed reception –&nb꧋sp;but the saga isn't slowing down, with multiple spinoffs in the works. 

Snyder, meanwhile, followed Man of Steel with 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Zack Snyder's Justice League. His latest movie, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Army of the Dead, is currently streaming on Netflix – and if you're caught up on its zombie-slaying mayhem, you can check out the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Netflix movies to watch now, and our ranking of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Zack Snyder movies.

Molly Edwards
Deputy Entertainment Editor

I'm the Deputy Entertainment Ed♛itor here at GamesRadar+, covering all things film and TV for the site's Total Film and SFX sections. I previously worked on the Disney mag෴azines team at Immediate Media, and also wrote on the CBeebies, MEGA!, and Star Wars Galaxy titles after graduating with a BA in English.