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Joss Whedon Discusses What His Theoretical Star Wars Movie Would Be Like, World Goes Bonkers

by Jill Pantozzi | 4:15 pm, March 12th, 2013


If you say “Joss Whedon” and “Star Wars” together, people are going to freak out. Even if it’s something as simple as, “Joss Whedon watched Star Wars.” But in this case, the director went as far as to share his thoughts on what he’d actually do with the franchise were he given the reins. Well, that’s a horse of a different color… 

You probably know by now J.J. Abrams was the one eventually chosen to continue the Star Wars saga with Episode VII but a lot of names were thrown around before then including Whedon’s. You might have also heard Carrie Fisher “joking” she would be in the film and George Lucas sort of confirming all three original stars would be returning. Well if Whedon had his way, they wouldn’t be.

In an interview interview with Digital Spy he said:

You know, I wouldn’t go back, I’d go forward.  I would want to create characters that would resonate the way that they did.  I mean not that I don’t want to see [the new movies], I would be excited to, but I also feel like I would want to explore a very different part of that universe.

And if there was a Han Solo solo film, would he have a hand in something that meant recasting the famous character? “That I would never want to do. Some things may not be rebooted,” he said, in his most serious voice.

(via Collider)

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  • Anonymous
  • http://wrongsirwrong.blogspot.com/ Magic Xylophone

    A Joss Whedon Star Wars film… so, Serenity?

  • http://twitter.com/nivenus Arthur O. Niven

    I understand where he’s coming from, but he *did* just make a major blockbuster starring 50 year old characters so I’m not sure if he’s in a good position to make light of reusing old characters.

  • http://www.facebook.com/TechnoMistress Lisa Lacey Liscoumb

    So…No Nathan Fillion as Han Solo in a JW Star Wars film? Sniff, sniff…

  • Vian Lawson

    I can absolutely understand what he’s saying, and to an extent I agree; I think the last Indiana Jones film showed what happened when you try to reheat a souffle. Poor Indy looked old and tired, and hadn’t progressed as a character in 20 years. And young whatzizname wasn’t so much “the next generation” as “waiting in the wings until Harrison Ford can literally no longer stand up or remember his lines, at which point we may try and hand the baton on, maybe”.

    But I also think there’s something to be said for tying the new generation of characters to the Big Three, in roles analogous to Alec Guinness’s in the first one. Young men (and women) are warriors; old (wo)men are teachers. If the writers can pull it off.

  • Vian Lawson

    Some might argue that it’s already been done. And rather well.

  • Anonymous

    Of course, those 50 year old icons have already gone through tons of reboots and reimaginings: Star Wars hasn’t.

  • http://twitter.com/CyberColossus Jordan

    Completely agree! This is exactly what i was worried about happening with star wars.

    Movie Bob (the escapist) said in his video that he was excited for the chance to breathe new life into the genre with new characters and a different take on the universe as a whole.

    Enter J.J Abrams who has basically said “No” to that idea, “im gonna bring old people back so that everyone thinks “Yay we know those old people therefore this is awesome and in no way an easy cash cow in mediocrity”
    Oh wait..

    Im not impressed by this personally. its quite sad :( i love star war’s universe. Give it to Bioware and make it an animated movie, or give the writing to them and the action to a team of people who truly love the franchise.

    Dont give it to someone who ALREADY OWNS STAR TREK.. and hasnt done a really GREAT OMFG movie.. ever.

  • quietpls

    Oh god no, don’t give it to BioWare. They jumped the shark a while ago. I still haven’t recovered from the trauma that was ME3.

  • Anonymous

    God it’s been a year, give it a rest with the ME3 poor me butthurt routine.

  • http://www.facebook.com/KozmikPariah Ryan Colson

    Also he’d kill off Han Solor or Chewbacca in a flashback

  • http://twitter.com/BeholdTheHair Mitch

    I agree with Joss’ idea of taking the franchise in a new direction, but I don’t think Abrams will do a poor job of it – not least because he’s basically using NuTrek as a Star Wars proxy anyway.

  • rod

    I’m with Joss on this one. My thing was why do “Spin Offs”? You have a live action television project that Star Wars fans like myself would like more, something that you can get your ” fix” every week instead of these spinoff movies? Doesn’t make sense! It’s overkill!!! The movies themselves are great. Go in a different direction with a new cast and if the old cast can somehow in some way can fit into these films with overshadowing the new cast I would be fine with that.

  • http://twitter.com/nivenus Arthur O. Niven

    But the vast body of work has been all in one continuity. Ultimate certainly had an influence on the MCU, but Earth-616 is still the dominant branch and source of material by a pretty significant margin.

  • Vian Lawson

    If you’re talking about the (ack, p’tui!) ending, rather than the game as a whole, consider playing the new DLC. It will make you smile and remember why you loved the franchise in the first place.

  • http://www.facebook.com/TechnoMistress Lisa Lacey Liscoumb

    Very true. I actually thought that as I hit post. :)

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