Jurassic World helmer Colin Trevorrow is directing the final film in the new Star Wars trilogy, and he’s got good news.
We’re a long way off from Star Wars Episode IX, but director Colin Trevorrow has already made a very important decision: He’s planning to shoot on physical film, as opposed to digital.
At Sundance, Trevorrow took part in a panel discussion with Christopher Nolan and cinematographer Rachel Morrison.
There, he revealed his plans to take Star Wars back to its analog roots. Variety quotes him as saying, “There’s something in my brain that says, ‘Well they didn’t have video cameras then.’ It’s a period film. It happened a long time ago.”
In general, studios and distributors are pushing directors to shoot on digital cameras, as the process is simpler and less expensive. At the panel, Christopher Nolan deemed this a “corporate conspiracy,” born from “a culture around wanting to kill film.”
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J.J. Abrams notably shot Star Wars: The Force Awakens on film, both in an effort to keep Kodak afloat and to recapture the feel of the original trilogy.
George Lucas is a proponent of digital technology, but the shift in style from his original trilogy to the prequels was met with a lot of contempt from the Star Wars fan base. The fact that Lucas is constantly inserting new digital elements into Episodes IV-VI isn’t helping much either.
The new trilogy’s directors are all big Star Wars fans, and Rian Johnson is also planning to shoot Episode VIII on film. We’re happy to hear that Trevorrow’s Star Wars movie will follow the tradition, too.