Josh Trank was originally set to direct a Star Wars spinoff movie following the story of the fan-favorite character, Boba Fett. Announced alongside Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, he made his exit from the project a year later. Being attached to the movie set in the galaxy far, far away means the director has to be tight-lipped about plot details and such. However, the amount of secrecy surrounding the film was one of the things that caused him to walk away from the project.
"The simple answer is, I signed so many NDAs that there would be no possible way I could discuss that in a responsible manner," Trank told ComicBookMovie. The director is currently promoting his new film Capone, which he is excited to move forward with as opposed to when he was working on the Star Wars movie. Trank admits he's "not a very secretive person by nature," and knows that working on the Boba Fett film won't allow him to talk about anything.
"You also know that everybody who loves these movies and loves what you love, they want to know about what's going on," he added. "And you want to talk about it so desperately because you want to share that with everybody and you don't want to close yourself off from the community of fandom that you relate to." Trank pointed out that he can't talk about anything except for expressing his excitement to be working on it.
That said, Trank is thankful to be able to work with the people at Lucasfilm, and he's even friends with them to this day. "We had so much fun together," he added. "The people who work up there in San Francisco are just the most creative, cool people I had ever gotten to work with before I started working on [Capone]."
It's unfortunate that fans won't get to learn more about Trank's original ideas for the Boba Fett movie, though it is understandable where he's coming from.
Trank's Capone is available on VOD on May 12th.
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