On Thursday, the Oscar-winning director was participating in a press conference for his new nostalgia-soaked, Easter egg-filled sci-fi actioner “Ready Player One” when he reportedly declared, “We couldn’t get any ‘Star Wars’ rights. “We requested [intellectual property] from almost all of the [movie] studios, and also game companies and toy companies, and everybody jumped on board, including Disney,” Spielberg said (watch above). Disney acquired Lucasfilm, originator of and gatekeeper to the “Star Wars” universe, in 2012. “I didn’t think it would be good to do the contemporary characters in all of the [new] ‘Star Wars’ films, because our film takes place in 2045 but everybody has returned nostalgically to the 1980s,” he said. “Ready Player One” opens March 29.

Source: Huffington Post March 20, 2018 17:48 UTC