{"id":25766,"date":"2013-01-07T15:05:49","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T20:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=25766"},"modified":"2018-11-17T20:06:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T01:06:55","slug":"del-toro-states-turned-down-star-wars-episode-vii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/07\/del-toro-states-turned-down-star-wars-episode-vii\/","title":{"rendered":"Del Toro States Turned Down STAR WARS EPISODE VII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/GuillermoDelToro.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-13055\" title=\"GuillermoDelToro\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/GuillermoDelToro-300x220.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a>Back in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/11\/13\/star-wars-director-sweepstakes-del-toro-and-trevorrow-are-possibilities\/\" target=\"_blank\">November<\/a>, Guillermo Del Toro was one of many directors rumored to be connected to possibly directing the just announced <strong>Star Wars: Episode VII<\/strong>. Del Toro dismissed the rumors stating that he had not even been approached about the possibility by Lucasfilm.<\/p>\n<p>That has changed, as Del Toro told <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150517185057\/http:\/\/blogs.indiewire.com\/theplaylist\/guillermo-del-toro-says-he-was-approached-for-star-wars-episode-7-would-have-loved-to-see-brad-bird-direct-the-sequel-20130107?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" target=\"_blank\">The Playlist<\/a> that he eventually did receive a call from Lucasfilm, but passed on the opportunity.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We got one phone call to my agent saying, &#8216;Is Guillermo interested?&#8217; And basically I have so much stuff already of my own, and I&#8217;m pursuing stuff that I&#8217;m generating already.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It shouldn&#8217;t come as a big surprise that Del Toro passed, however. The director currently is wrapping up work on next summer&#8217;s <strong>Pacific Rim<\/strong> and has a number of other projects in various stages of development, anyone of which he could tackle next. To move right into <strong>Star Wars<\/strong> would mean to postpone any of these more personal projects for at least two to three years, depending on whether he was going to direct just <strong>Episode VII <\/strong>or all of the planned new trilogy. Given the amount of time that Del Toro invested in developing <strong>The Hobbit<\/strong> with Peter Jackson with an eye towards directing before ultimately leaving in frustration over delays relating to MGM&#8217;s financial crisis, I am not surprised that he doesn&#8217;t seem interested in working on a project where he might be beholden to someone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">He finally got the call.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/07\/del-toro-states-turned-down-star-wars-episode-vii\/\" title=\"Del Toro States Turned Down STAR WARS EPISODE VII\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[1035,5830],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-guillermo-del-toro","8":"tag-star-wars-episode-vii"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25766"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=25766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}