Patty Jenkins says she feels the pressure to “make a great Star Wars film” with Rogue Squadron

Patty Jenkins, the director of Surprise Lady 1984 and the newly-announced Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, has talked concerning the stress of directing a Star Wars film and the way she received the job.

Final week introduced an abundance of Star Wars information and bulletins, with certainly one of them being that Patty Jenkins will probably be directing the subsequent film, a fighter pilot centered journey entitled Star Wars: Rogue Squadron.

Directing a Star Wars film is not any straightforward feat, with lots of people to please who all have very particular and intense expectations. Jenkins appears as much as the duty, nonetheless, and has advised Yahoo all about it:

“I really feel an enormous quantity of stress to make an important Star Wars movie, after all. The fan base is superb and large and that’s no small process. That’s actually what I take into consideration.”

Concerning being the primary girl to direct a Star Wars film, she mentioned: “If I may be in a groundbreaking place to pave the best way for different folks, that’s superb. I hope that I get to try this however fortunately [Wonder Woman and Wonder Woman 1984] weren’t no stress, both. So I’ve gotten fairly used to the truth that there’s actually nothing you are able to do about it. You simply need to attempt to make an important movie and actually be diligent about holding your eye on the ball and all the time ensuring you’re fascinated with all the pieces. So I’ll carry ahead and attempt to make an important film.”

Jenkins additionally revealed how she was approached to make the film: “What occurred was [Lucasfilm] simply approached me and [asked] would I ever have an interest and I mentioned it could actually rely upon what the story was. I simply all the time need to ensure that I really feel I could make a tremendous film. And once they mentioned Rogue Squadron I virtually gasped. As a result of I couldn’t imagine that they have been so smart to know and one way or the other intuit that that’s precisely what I’ve been dying to do for thus lengthy due to my previous and rising up round fighter pilots. It truly is a film I’ve been dying to make. I spent years making an attempt to make a film about Chuck Yeager. So that is simply an enormous honor to get to take this on.”

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Whereas particulars are slim at this level, hopefully, the film seems to be an important one and a welcome return to the massive display for the franchise after what’s going to then be 4 years away.