Godzilla Minus One stomps into U.S. theaters right now, so director Takashi Yamazaki most likely already has quite a bit on his plate proper now. However goddammit, the person needs to do a Star Wars movie, and now I can consider nothing extra excellent.
“I watched Star Wars, and that’s how I ended up being a filmmaker,” Yamazaki lately advised /Film about his hopes for what films he may do subsequent. “I’m actually hoping I’ll get a name and they’ll carry me on Star Wars.”
Look. Look. I know Lucasfilm does not currently have a great track record of really getting Star Wars films made by the administrators it hires to make Star Wars films. I do know they simply lately pared down their slate of deliberate films even additional, to concentrate on the three big new projects on the horizon: Dave Filoni’s Mando-verse movie, James Mangold’s origins of the Jedi movie, and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s Rey Skywalker/New Jedi Order movie. However. However! Right here’s the factor: a Takashi Yamazaki Star Wars film could possibly be goddamn unbelievable.
I’m not simply saying that as a result of Godzilla Minus One is de facto good (it’s although). I’m not even simply saying that as a result of Yamazaki walks the stroll with regards to being a Star Wars fan and its affect on him—after I spoke to the director in 2020 for his 3DCG Lupin III movie, The First, his workplace was lined with cabinets upon cabinets of the bins, and accomplished outcomes of, Bandai’s line of Star Wars mannequin kits. I’m saying this as a result of Yamazaki isn’t only a nice director, however an awesome visible FX lead, and is skilled within the sort of large endeavor a Star Wars mission can be—and clearly skilled in balancing sensible and visible results like something within the galaxy far, distant.
One of many many, many nice issues about Minus One (okay sue me, so perhaps I used to be additionally saying all this as a result of Godzilla Minus One is de facto good!) is how tactile its FX work is. Whereas being a CG creation, Godzilla strikes and interacts with the bodily world round him in Minus One like a mixture of residing beast and his roots as, nicely, a man in a monster suit. It’s a triumph of balancing his old-school legacy and in delivering an awesome wanting monster film, nevertheless it’s additionally the sort of strategy that might be unbelievable in a Star Wars film—constructing on the saga’s historical past with sensible mannequin work and revolutionizing the VFX business as we all know it, and placing it within the fingers of somebody with a very eager eye for that legacy. Yamazaki may even present just a few fashions himself!
I don’t care what it’s. Hell, give him the Zillo beast, low cost as that might be. Simply somebody, anybody on the market at Lucasfilm involved in making one thing nice, give the person a name.
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