Honestly, most of us are adult children, even award-winning directors. In a recent episode City podcast, Dune: part two director Denis Villeneuve lets his intrusive thoughts get the better of him as he explains the origins of his childhood disappointment Return of the Jedi still prevents him from directing Star Wars film over 40 years later.
As was the case with most children in 1977 Star Wars: A New Hope crashed from a galaxy far, far away, according to the 57-year-old director, the first film “passed into my brain like a silver bullet.” Was Star Wars a fanatic and “was traumatized The Empire Strikes Back” probably when the villain that all the children hated turned out to be the Jedi father that every child wanted to be. Then, Return of the Jedi it happened.
“I was 15 and my best friend and I wanted to take a taxi and go to Los Angeles to talk to George Lucas. We were very furious! Today, Ewoks. It turned out to be a comedy for children,” he recalls.
Villeneuve grew out of its creator’s franchise George Lucas he said it was intended for 12-year-olds. Vileneuve definitively condemned the prospect of making a film in the series, stating: “I don’t dream of making a film Star Wars because it seems like the code is very codified.” It seems he would rather explore cosmic classicism with divine sandworms and messiahs.
Villeneuve has never been shy about expressing his views Star Wars criticism. In 2023 interview on The Playlistcriticized the franchise for losing its elegance and abandoning Luke Skywalker’s psychological path, feeling so strongly that he remarked, “I never left Star Wars, Star Wars he left me.“
When he reaches the end of his own trilogy (which he doesn’t consider the trilogy) with the third one Dune movie, let’s hope he glues the platform the way he wants Star Wars had.
