Published 22:03 IST, September 11th 2019
A Quiet Place writers turned down Lucasfilm's Star Wars, Indiana Jones
'A Quiet Place' scribes Scott Beck and Bryan Woods have declined to work on Lucasfilm's future 'Star Wars' films as they insisted on creating a new franchise.
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'A Quiet Place' scribes Scott Beck and Bryan Woods have revealed that y declined to work on Lucasfilm's future 'Star Wars' films as y insisted on creating a new franchise. duo has become one of most sought after names in Hollywood following success of John Krasinski-directed "A Quiet Place" and Lucasfilm caught up with m to talk about ir iconic franchises -- 'Star Wars' and 'Indiana Jones'.
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In an interview with Movieweb, scribes said that during ir discussions with studio's executives, y me ir intentions clear about working on "original ideas".
"We went into Lucasfilm in wake of 'A Quiet Place' and y wanted to talk to us about 'Indiana Jones' and 'Star Wars'.
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"And we're like, 'We wanna talk to you about what is 'Star Wars' before it was 'Star Wars'? You guys have a responsibility to start a new franchise. That's where our hearts have always been, just trying to create original ideas," Woods said.
Beck revealed that discussions centred more around what ir take would be on 'Indiana Jones' or 'Star Wars'.
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"Without giving away too much it was simply ruminating on if we did an 'Indiana Jones' movie, what would we want to see in Indiana Jones?' Or if we did a Star Wars' movie, what's that chapter of whole universe that we would want to see?
"So it very much was an open canvas talk. It started going down line a little bit but, again, as Bryan said, it's just t our DNA. We would rar create what next Indiana Jones' could be," he said.
Beck and Woods are looking forward to ir directorial debut "Haunt", which will release in US on Friday
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18:19 IST, September 11th 2019