4. The Direction
Right off the bat, Id want to hire a director who knows the genre. So Ridley Scott would be my first choice, partly because (like half of me) hes a Geordie but mainly because
Prometheus was bloody brilliant and hes able to not only create a wonderful sense of atmosphere but also to work brilliantly well with new technology despite having done a lot of work in the days when visual effects were in their infancy. On top of that, I just think hes a damn good director and would suit the darker tone Id want to establish. Keeping with wanting a darker, more violent film, Id also consider Paul Verhoeven. Verhoeven was at one point a contender to direct
Return Of The Jedi but was dropped when Steven Spielberg saw how sexually graphic his film
Spetters was. Verhoevens another sci-fi director who I think has a lot of promise as well as a good track record and would do well as a
Star Wars director. My third and final choice would be Matthew Vaughn. Id personally bet money on Disney hiring him to direct at least one of the new trilogy as hes worked on
X-Men: First Class (part of Marvel, a franchise now owned by Disney) and fantasy epic
Stardust. Hes a relatively new director, having only directed four films so far but is a very promising talent whose sci-fi and fantasy work tends to straddle the line between family friendly, and dark and serious.