Strong In The Force: Four Directors Who Need To Make Star Wars Films
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Drew Goddard
Directing Credits: The Cabin in the Woods, The Sinister Six
Goddard made his feature directorial debut with The Cabin in the Woods, which is like hitting an out-of-the-park home run your first time at bat. Cabin didn’t make nearly the splash in the larger pop culture pond that it deserves, and that’s a huge shame since it’s one of the best movies I’ve seen in this young century. Goddard came up working on shows such as Alias, Lost, and Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, and Cabin proved he learned his lessons well. Cabin in the Woods is smart, funny, thrilling, and a pitch-perfect skewering of the horror films that inspired it, the sort of flick that never seems to turn in the direction you expected. Hell, the whole idea behind Buffy was to take a cliché — the helpless blonde cheerleader who wanders down a dark alley and is slaughtered by monsters — and turn it on its head. How great would it be to see Goddard take that same approach to Star Wars, not as parody or satire, but simply by acknowledging the clichés; or silly parts and then undermining them entirely. Disney’s streamlining of the Star Wars canon means the future possibilities for the franchise are endless. I have no clue what corner of the Star Wars universe Goddard might want to play with, but I’d sure as hell like to see the result. It also wouldn’t hurt that Goddard knows how to write funny, and that could go a long way toward helping us forget the pained, strained “humor” of the prequels.
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