Editorial Staff
Despite suggestions he was fired, “Fantastic Four” helmer Josh Trank was reportedly the one who decided the “Star Wars” spin-off wasn’t for him.
Talking to The Los Angeles Times, the “Chronicle” director explained that doing another big-budget studio movie – after this year’s “Fantastic Four” – wasn’t something that appealed to him.
“I knew that this was going to be questioned, and it was going to come under skepticism as to why I left ‘Star Wars’. And it was hard. It was the hardest decision I’ve ever had to make in my life… I want to do something original after this, because I’ve been living under public scrutiny, as you’ve seen, for the last four years of my life and it’s not healthy for me right now in my life. I want to do something that’s below the radar. [Lucasfilm] all understood it because this whole experience for me has been very psychologically hard. It feels sometimes like I’m living in a Paddy Chayefsky script or something like that. Every misconception that could possibly be made about this has been made to a hilariously satirical degree. And it’s people who haven’t met me before. If they met me – I don’t know, I feel like I’m a pretty harmless person.”
A director has yet to be hired for the “Star Wars Anthology” film.
