With its subtly dark moments - the Jabba's Palace creatures having the potential for true grotesqueness, and the struggle between Luke and Vader manipulated by the scary visage of the Emperor (as seen above) - the idea that George Lucas would reach out to singular and unique filmmakers of the quirky, sometimes nightmare-ish and outside the box side kind, like David's Lynch and Cronenberg, as potential directorial candidates for Return of the Jedi was not as implausible an idea as you might thank - both filmmakers then and now being creative mavericks like Lucas, and both could have effectively handled these darker shadings fused with the visual side of the saga if they'd really wanted. Lynch didn't ultimately want to work in someone else's imagination sandbox- a tour of ILM and Lucas's early plans making him queasy, especially the too cute potential of the Ewoks.
As for Cronenberg? Well, here's what he had to say:
https://ew.com/movies/2018/09/28/david-cronenberg-return-of-the-jedi/?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=entertainmentweekly_ew&utm_term=20D1EA72-C330-11E8-B861-25974744363C&utm_content=link
No comments:
Post a Comment