Summary
- Matthew Vaughn, director of X-Men: First Class, wants to reboot the Star Wars franchise because he believes the focus should be on the Skywalker family.
- However, a Star Wars reboot may face backlash from fans who view it as disrespectful to George Lucas' original vision for the franchise.
- Instead of a reboot, expanding the Star Wars universe with diverse stories and concepts, like Ahsoka and Andor, would be a more creative and appealing choice.
X-Men: First Class director Matthew Vaughn wants to reboot the Star Wars franchise. The Star Wars franchise launched in 1977, and it had a transformative effect on popular culture. 46 years later, it's still going strong, although it did technically undergo something of a partial reboot back in 2014. Then, Disney decided to erase all the various tie-in novels and comics from canon, branding them "Legends" so they were less restricted by existing content and could start again.
Your browser does not support the video tag. Speaking to Josh Horowitz, Kingsman director Matthew Vaughn has revealed there'd only one way he'd ever do a Star Wars movie: If he got the opportunity to reboot the franchise. "For me, doing a Star Wars movie is to play with the characters that I loved," he explains. In his view, Star Wars is the Skywalker family, and he believes that's what Lucasfilm has gotten wrong with their desire to expand the franchise. "Bond, do you mind Bond? You ask me who's gonna play the next Wolverine? Why are these characters so hallowed that, from '77, you can't redo it for a new audience?" Vaughn is no stranger to reboots, having essentially rebooted the X-Men franchise with 2011's X-Men: First Class, and he'd find the idea of a Star Wars reboot thrilling.
