Would you prefer to see an R-rated Star Wars film or TV sequence? Lucasfilm Dave Filoni admits the idea is “interesting.”
Will there ever be an R-rated Star Wars film? Followers have been asking this query for years, and as franchises resembling Marvel and DC have developed their very own R-rated fare, some wonder if Star Wars could possibly be subsequent.
Whereas talking on the Completely happy Unhappy Confused podcast, Lucasfilm’s Chief Artistic Officer Dave Filoni was requested about the potential for an R-rated Star Wars film. “Sure, I mean, I don’t know. I think it’s interesting,” Filoni mentioned. “The underside line is no matter we do it needs to be rather well performed. I believe while you take a look at one thing that’s taken as completely different like Andor, it’s so effectively performed, and Tony [Gilroy] and his crew do such an outstanding job, that I believe that there’s an viewers for that. I believe additionally with that viewers, I wish to nonetheless be hitting the creativeness of the youngsters on the market, in order that they’ll develop up and admire these issues.“
Filoni continued: “[Star Wars] encompasses all forms of types, and the inventive of the actual story driving it’s an important factor, and they need to do one thing that’s inside their consolation zone. In any other case, we’re to think about that everybody’s going to return in and fake they’re George Lucas. I’ve realized from George, however actually I’m not the identical as George relating to making films. He’s a one in every of a form generational expertise. I like wolves and put them in my ‘Star Wars.’ We’re simply completely different and that’s okay. However there are rules about selections and being particular person and being extra selfless and getting over your fears which are timeless it doesn’t matter what model you’re speaking about.“
Thus far, Andor might be probably the most adult-oriented Star Wars story on the market, not essentially from a intercourse/language/violence perspective however simply by the kind of story it tells. The franchise does have an unimaginable vary, with tales geared toward all forms of audiences, however taking that step into R-rated territory can be one thing very completely different. What kind of Star Wars story might solely exist as an R-rated undertaking?
Some administrators have even imagined what they might do with an R-rated Star Wars film. The Black Telephone director Scott Derrickson as soon as mentioned he needed to make a horror movie set on the planet Hoth. “Just asked what kind of Star Wars movie I would make,” Derrickson mentioned in 2020. “I answered that I’d make Hoth, an R-rated frozen planet horror movie within the vein of The Factor or Lovecraft’s Within the Mountains of Insanity, with zero connection to any earlier characters or storylines.“
Would you prefer to see an R-rated Star Wars film or ought to the franchise not take that step?
