A not-so-long time ago, in a Burbank studio, Zack Snyder pitched a “Star Wars” movie.The year was 2012.
Disney had just bought Lucasfilm, which gave the company the keys to George Lucas’ blockbuster franchise.
It was the earliest of days.
Lucasfilm leader Kathleen Kennedy was taking meetings with every successful director in Hollywood, which led to a sit-down with Snyder.
Snyder was at a critical juncture in his career: after delivering three relatively well-reviewed entertainments in “Dawn of the Dead,” “300” and “Watchmen,” the filmmaker had stumbled with “Sucker Punch,” a wholly original action-fantasy about a group of young women who weaponize their imagination to break free of a mental institution.Snyder was about to get off the ropes with “Man of Steel,” but he sensed a world-building opportunity at Disney.
His pitch was to take the “Star Wars” series back to its Akira Kurosawa roots with, as he recently told Vanity Fair,…
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