David Cronenberg is famous for crafting body horror nightmares like “The Fly” and “Scanners” and hard-hitting dramas such as “Eastern Promises” and “A History of Violence,” but one thing the director has never done is join a franchise behind the camera.
Cronenberg got close when he received a call from Lucasfilm for the directing gig on “Return of the Jedi,” but taking on a movie he had no input in creating wasn’t appealing.“I still recall getting a phone call,” Cronenberg tells Entertainment Weekly about his brief encounter with the “Star Wars” universe.
“At that point it was called ‘Revenge of the Jedi’…I was asked if I would be interested in considering that, and meeting with everybody, and I said, with the arrogance of youth — relative youth, anyway — I said, ‘Well, I’m not used to doing other people’s material.’ And there was like a stunned silence and then ‘Click’ — hang up.
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