Ben Affleck turned down directing Star Wars: The Force Awakens
The actor-director says he loved the saga but didn’t feel he was the right person for the project.
Trailer · AnimalsBen Affleck received, several years ago, a proposal from Lucasfilm to direct Star Wars: The Force Awakens. He declined, judging that, even as a fan, he was not the right person. In the Happy Sad Confused podcast, he recalled that “someone else is better suited than me”. The same actor-director has just released Animals on Netflix, his sixth film after Gone Baby Gone, Air, The Town and Argo, the latter having won the Oscar for Best Picture in 2013. In 2015, the saga resumed under the direction of J.J. Abrams, generating more than two billion dollars worldwide.
