300 Director to Develop Star Wars Standalone Based on Seven Samurai

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300 Director to Develop Star Wars Standalone Based on Seven Samurai

Zack Snyder previously said he had no interest in Star Wars: Episode VII.

Apparently director Zack Snyder's previous lack of interest in directing the seventh Star Wars movie was honest but misleading, because according to an anonymous source consulted by Vulture, he's set to develop a Jedi epic based on the classic movie Seven Samurai by famed Japanese director Akira Kurosawa. Snyder is best known for directing 300, Watchmen and this summer's upcoming superman reboot Man of Steel. It's currently unknown where in the trilogy the film will fall, though it likely won't be a numbered Star Wars episode. It's likely that this is part of Disney's new plan to release a Star Wars movie every few years, which will likely require a few movies that stand alone. Vulture's sources say that the new Snyder film will probably go into production after Star Wars: Episode VII releases in 2015.

Seven Samurai is a 1954 movie set during the warring states period in Japan that tells the story of seven ronin hired to defend a peasant village that's robbed by bandits each year. Samurai movies like those directed by Akira Kurosawa are regularly cited as inspirations for Star Wars, so it's interesting to see Disney returning to the root of the films' influence. Picking Snyder as director will likely result in a little controversy. We'll see how everyone feels about it after Man of Steel releases this summer.

Source: Vulture [http://www.vulture.com/2013/01/zack-snyder-preps-non-trilogy-star-wars-film.html]


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[SonOfVoorhees]

Sounds good. Thing about the prequels were it was concentrated on Vader and light sabers. The characters sucked as it had to be connected to the original series. But with this they can do there own thing. New characters etc This movie could be awesome if they keep the feel of the original trilogy but have new stuff. Will be excellent.

 

[SonOfVoorhees]

Oh and if you look at 7 samurai, you think of 7 jedi protecting a village from sith or bandits. It just fits the lore and how both sides fit. Hopefully this is a one off movie, no sequels. It tells the story and its over. Will be good. Well....knowing the how 7 samurai ends.

 

[Thunderous Cacophony]

I wonder what exactly they mean by "remaking". Is this going to be "7 Jedi fight to defend a planet against attackers, sacrificing several of their number but ultimately winning," or "A bunch of heroes do something, but use they same sort of archetypes."

 

[tmande2nd]

That sounds really cool.
I like Star Wars, I like the Seven Samurai and I think Mr Snyder is a decent director.
Hopefully its not crap like Star Wars Clone Wars.

 

[Smallells]

The Magnificent Seven with lightsabers?
I would watch that.
Also, stand alone stories always have a uniqueness towards them that I rarely find uninteresting. Just as long as it has no/very tenuous connections to previous star wars characters - not that I don't love them, but their stories are done to death. Let's they do something new and fun.

 

[Mumorpuger]

Why would you want to tarnish a good story with space wizards?

 

[Smiley Face]

Well, cautiously optimistic on this one, because, well, new Star Wars movies. Not sure if Snyder would be the right fit, but doing a standalone is probably the best place to try him out, because it allows stylistic difference from the original saga and whatever Disney has in the works. And I've gotta say, I like the idea of standalone Star Wars stuff. If it takes off, I hope they try and adapt KotOR, that would be great.

 

[dragongit]

I think the Clone Wars cartoon already had an episode like that, so it wouldn't even be an original concept in the Star Wars Universe.

 

[cwmdulais]

i fucking love Zack Snyder, so this pleases me greatly

 

[BrotherRool]

This seems really cool. If Disney get on board with the idea of the Star Wars EU and telling smaller tales within it as a decision right from the very top even in the films... that could be very cool

 

[luvd1]

Oo, lovely. Battle beyond the stars all over again.

 

[Talaris]

The Magnificent 7 have been to space before...

Wow...never knew this. I'm definitely gonna check this one out. I love how they blatantly rip off the design of a Corellian Corvette on the poster, the same with the laughably similar title.


Captcha: Men in Suits. Almost captcha, but it's called Men in Black.

 

[anzerath]

dragongit is correct. The Clone Wars episode was pretty good too (if a bit predictable)

 

[LonelyWizzard]

This'd be amazing, but unfortunately Snyder's released a statement denying it to hollywood reporter:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/zack-snyder-shoots-down-report-412336

All the sad-faces

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

Why would you want to tarnish a good story with space wizards?

Because Star Wars did it before?

It is no secret that Lucas was heavily inspired by samurai films when making A New Hope, in particular The Hidden Fortress, another classic film by Akira Kurosawa. The original script for episode IV even strongly resembles the plot of that movie.

Basing a Star Wars movie on Seven Samurai is not necessarily a bad thing in and of itself. It all boils down to whether the director can make it work.

 

[1337mokro]

THIS IS TATTOOINE!!!

I can see this going well. An action oriented adventure movie inspired by older samurai and adventure movies. Kind of sounds familiar...

Nah must be me imagining things. Though it would be fun to see Seven Space Samurai in theaters. I do hope they call it that. A big fan of alliteration.

 

[Caffeine_Bombed]

i fucking love Zack Snyder, so this pleases me greatly

Snap. This was pretty awesome news for me too. Got a damn good feeling about this!

 

[Mike Kayatta]

Because Seven Samurai hasn't been remade enough.

 

[2fish]

Could work but for the love of god Disney Jedi overpopulation kills the movies for me. I mean if we found a force sensitive rabbit race maybe I would be ok with it.

Because Seven Samurai hasn't been remade enough.

What if we made it eight? We might as well redeem gungans before it is too late.