Van Lathan
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Where it's like, if you take that original trilogy, you're like, this is a perfect villain.
This is a perfect villain arc.
I love this.
And then when you start explaining too much, you're just like...
damn, there is a little bit of magic that just gets scrubbed.
It's a snake eating its own tail.
Exactly.
Right.
Gilroy has an actual reference point.
He's like, I am actually not that big of a fan of Star Wars.
So he's coming to it with a more objective lens of like, hey, actually, what do these stories mean?
And what do I want to tell in this world?
Versus this is how I always thought Star Wars should have been.
I get my action figures now.
I'm telling my own story.
And you're like...
When you understand when the force is no longer religion, when it's like, hey, they're midichlorians and this and that, I'm like, you took something that was perfect and magical...
But I think the one-to-one is different because to me, Game of Thrones and Star Trek
Those are both like TV.
Star Trek, yeah.