Halloween trilogy and Exorcist: Believer director David Gordon Green recently addressed reports that he is involved with Lucasfilm’s Star Wars franchise. It turns out there is some truth to these reports as the director has actually met with Lucasfilm executives in the past to discuss Star Wars, but there are currently no plans for him to take on a project set in the galaxy far, far away.
The reports of Gordon Green’s involvement started popping up earlier this year. They claimed that Green had hired to develop a Star Wars project prior to the release of 2022’s Halloween Ends. In response to that, he clarified on the Happy Sad Confused podcast:
“I’ve met with some folks there, but there’s never been a project or an idea. Those kinds of meetings are fun because I do know a lot about, at least the old Star Wars movies. The reality is, again, the mechanism might look at me too skeptically. Like anything, there are executives who want to know who’s out there and what they’re thinking: ‘He’s dusted off a Halloween franchise or he’s working on an Exorcist franchise, I wonder if he’s got something creative to bring to the table.’ My impulses are always pretty eccentric.”
When asked about what corner of Star Wars Universe would appeal to Gordon Green,” Green responded, “I would be very curious, too, [to see] where that would go.”
Gordon Green won’t be developing any Star Wars projects anytime soon as he is currently working with Blumhouse on directing a trilogy of Exorcist movies. Green has been hit or miss on films over the course of his career. I don’t really see him bringing anything special to the Star Wars franchise, though. What do you think?
