Pale Fire: A Magazine in 12 Projects Group Three | Page 71

JJ: {Confidently} Because I JJ: {Widens eyes, swallows;
want to direct the new Star visibly caught off-guard} With
Wars movie. all due respect, Mr…?
N: And what do you think you N: Nabokov.
would bring to the table as a
director?
JJ: Nabokov… with what part
don’t you agree?
JJ: {Answering immediately,
as if the statement is pre-
N:
pared}} As you know, I’ve al-
{Speaking
calmly,
with
seemingly feigned patience}
ready rebooted the Star Trek
The type of movie that we are
franchise. I think that my re-
hoping to make at Disney
sume puts me very much in
Studios is not an ‘original’ sto-
line to direct a similarly large-
ry. ‘New and interesting’ is the
scale sci-fi series. I also really
furthest thing from our aspi-
love Star Wars, and I want to
rations. We’re a large compa-
use the saga to tell a new and
ny. We want to appeal to the
interesting story, with new
widest demographic possible.
and interesting characters.
Considering that the original
Star Wars films are all time-
N: {Furrows eyebrows, think- less classics, we want to make
ing} Hmmm. I’m not sure that this new trilogy as close to the
I agree, Mr. Abrams. originals as possible.
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