Josh Trank

Director

Initially rumored to be behind one of the new spin-off Star Wars films, specifically about Boba Fett.

He's frequently attached to writer Simon Kinberg, who was rumored to be writing one of the spin-offs and with whom he made the latest Fantastic Four film.

According to an interview he eventually did with Polygon in 2020, it was confirmed he wrote an outline but wasn't involved beyond pre-pro development:

"With a few days to mull over Kinberg’s offer, Trank walked up to the Lucas house and basked in its glow. He called it one of the most surreal moments of his life. “The visions that I had in that moment were just out of this world,” he said. He walked back to his home with a three-act pitch for a Boba Fett movie. ... Trank presented the idea to Hart, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy, and Disney chairman Alan Horn. Up until that point, only J.J. Abrams had been approved to play in the Star Wars sandbox, and granting permission for a filmmaker to forever impact the moneymaking mythos was a monthslong process. But the guy who made his name with a lightsaber-themed viral video came out the other end with a Star Wars movie deal."

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