{"id":326044,"date":"2025-10-23T08:41:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T08:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/326044\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T08:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T08:41:11","slug":"david-fincher-was-also-developing-a-star-wars-movie-post-rise-of-skywalker-that-ultimately-fell-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/326044\/","title":{"rendered":"David Fincher Was Also Developing a ‘Star Wars’ Movie Post-‘Rise of Skywalker’ That Ultimately Fell Through"},"content":{"rendered":"

More failed\u00a0Star Wars projects are coming out of the woodwork this week. Following Adam Driver\u2019s revelation<\/a> that there was a script titled\u00a0The Hunt for Ben Solo set after\u00a0The Rise of Skywalker that was ultimately turned down by Disney, reporter Jeff Sneider broke the news via his newsletter<\/a> that David Fincher, the iconic director behind\u00a0Seven, The Social Network, and Fight Club, was also working not that long ago on a movie for Lucasfilm.<\/p>\n

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Sneider didn\u2019t reveal many details, other than the story would have been set after the events of\u00a0The Rise of Skywalker\u00a0and was focused on a character from that movie, though we don\u2019t know which one. The project would have been his idea, but negotiations fell through as the director asked for final cut, something that Lucasfilm was not willing to concede. It\u2019s unclear how far along the development process the movie was, though. For starters, Fincher is not a writer, so someone else would have had to pen the script.<\/p>\n

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Fincher is currently working on a follow-up to Quentin Tarantino\u2019s\u00a0Once Upon a Time\u2026 In Hollywood for Netflix, where the filmmaker has had an overall deal for a long time. His relation to\u00a0Star Wars is also not unknown. He worked as a crew member on\u00a0Return of the Jedi back in the day, which was one of his first experiences on a movie, and he was also approached to direct\u00a0Episode VII in the early days of development, shortly after Disney bought Lucasfilm. Moreover, Kathleen Kennedy produced his movie\u00a0The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, so there\u2019s already a built-in relationship with the head of the studio. That movie was nominated for Best Picture, which could have been Kennedy\u2019s first Oscar.<\/p>\n

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Circling back to Adam Driver, Sneider also asked his source about the timing of the\u00a0Hunt for Ben Solo reveal, and whether he could be \u201csetting the stage for his return\u201d.\u00a0He wrote: \u201cI was assured that there are no plans for him to return to the Star Wars franchise, especially with Kennedy expected to step down from her post early next year.\u201d This story has taken over\u00a0Star Wars Twitter this week, with a good portion of the fanbase upset over the decision. It has even prompted a Change.org petition<\/a> (of course), and even incentivized the social media managers at Lucasfilm to post the fight between Rey and Ben Solo vs. Palpatine on YouTube<\/a>, to capitalize on the sudden interest.<\/p>\n

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Miguel Fern\u00e1ndez is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings,\u00a0but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as movies from Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More failed\u00a0Star Wars projects are coming out of the woodwork this week. Following Adam Driver\u2019s revelation that there…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":326045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[79338,171,53,14398,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-326044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-david-fincher","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-star-wars","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115422592203291229","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}