Rumor: ‘BRAVE’ co-director Brenda Chapman working on ‘STAR WARS: EPISODE VII.’
If you’re tired of Episode VII news, I’m sorry. I really am. Unfortunately for you, this is kid in a candy shop type swagger going on here. Almost too good to be true, almost too ludicrous to be real. The latest rumors are swirling around the co-director of Brave. A flick I never saw.
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The news of new Star Wars movies instantly raised question marks around a bunch of seemingly standard Hollywood departures. First was Matthew Vaughn, who suddenly left X-Men: Days of Future Past and soon mentioned as a possible director for Star Wars Episode VII (though he’s more likely working on Secret Service). Now Brenda Chapman, the co-director of Brave who left Pixar to work on a mystery project at LucasFilm, has been brought up as a possible conspirator.
The most compelling evidence comes from her own Twitter feed, where she’s been teasing her followers with questions about the project and offering emoticon-laced non-denials. But there’s more too. Could she direct? It’s unlikely, but it sounds possible that she’s going to be a part of it in one way or another. Check it out below.
Bleeding Cool‘s article on this topic got our gears turning. Before we go on to wildly speculate with circumstantial evidence, though, here are the facts.
- Brenda Chapman took at job at LucasFilm to work on a mystery project.
- She took this job in August 2012, a time we know Star Wars Episode VII had already been discussed.
- LucasFilm was working on animated Star Wars at that time.
- Chapman’s talent for story was an asset at several studios.
Those are the facts, now onto the speculation. Their biggest piece of evidence of Chapman’s possibly involvement is her own tweet.
