John Wick director wants to "take a swing" at making a Star Wars movie

Jan. 4, 2024

“I’m a Star Wars guy”

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John Wickdirector Chad Stahelski may be best known for his assassin actioners and epic fight scenes, but he’s got his sights set on something a little more sci-fi: Star Wars.

“I’m a Star Wars guy,” Stahelski told theHappy Sad Confused podcast. “The first Star Wars changed my life path. Maybe someday out there,Disneyif you’re listening, hit me in a couple of years. I have a couple of takes for Star Wars. I’d take a swing at that, see if Disney could survive me.”

There’s no shortage of big-name directors putting their spin on the galaxy far, far away in the near future, so Stahelski would be joining a fairly long queue – James Mangold, Taika Waititi, and Sharmeen-Obaid Chinoy all haveStar Wars movies in the works, as doesLucasfilm’s new chief creative officer Dave Filoni.

Joining a pre-existing franchise would mean the stunt coordinator-turned-filmmaker would have to give up some of the freedom he’s come to enjoy helming the Keanu Reeves-fronted action series, though. “I’ve been asked a lot about, ‘Why do you do John Wicks? Don’t you want to try something else?'” Stahelski added.

“Yes, of course I do, but given the choice I’ve had and the parameters that were presented to me, as far as those opportunities went, I felt like I could do more and bring something more, and do more of what I want, and do the fights and the anime and the action more my way by doing [John Wick]. Why work within somebody else’s parameters of what I feel to be a duel or mythology when I can create?”

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