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"David Cronenberg has revealed that he was approached about directing Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi. The Cosmopolis director and David Lynch were both linked with the 1983 Star Wars sequel before George Lucas hired Richard Marquand to make the film.   &amp;quot;A long time ago I was approached for one second to do a Star Wars movie, which at that time was called Revenge of the Jedi and then it became Return of the Jedi,&amp;quot; Cronenberg told Digital Spy. &amp;quot;I was approached by Lucasfilm about that and it didn&amp;#039;t take them long to realise that maybe that wasn&amp;#039;t a good idea.&amp;quot; The filmmaker also dismissed rumours that he was in the running to direct The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, saying: &amp;quot;No, it was not true. There were people who said, &amp;#039;Wouldn&amp;#039;t it be interesting if Cronenberg did it?&amp;#039; and then it sort of became its own reality. Very Videodrome-like. &amp;quot;But no, I was never approached. I mean, I&amp;#039;m pretty sure I&amp;#039;m absolutely not the kind of director they would be looking for.&amp;quot; &amp;gt; David Cronenberg interview: &amp;#039;Cosmopolis&amp;#039;, &amp;#039;The Fly&amp;#039;, &amp;#039;Videodrome&amp;#039;, more Asked about his views on making big-budget commercial Hollywood movies, Cronenberg said: &amp;quot;Well you&amp;#039;re really restricted by the format that&amp;#039;s been established - so for a really inventive or innovative director, that&amp;#039;s being put in a straitjacket.   &amp;quot;And the visual style has been established and the characters have been cast - I mean, you&amp;#039;re not involved in casting the leads, which is of course, for a director, a hugely important thing. &amp;quot;Alfonso Cuar\u00C3\u00B3n did one of the Harry Potter movies and imposed his own visual, long take, flowing style on it and it was reasonably successful that way. &amp;quot;You can see it&amp;#039;s interesting - you have a huge budget to work with and make more money than you would normally make, but you&amp;#039;re pretty restricted. Cuar\u00C3\u00B3n could only be inventive in terms of the visual style as everything else was established. How satisfying can it be?&amp;quot; Cosmopolis is available on Blu-ray and DVD now. Watch the trailer below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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