Amid rumors linking Kane Parsons to massive pop-culture IPs following the success of his debut feature film, Backrooms, the YouTuber-turned-director has confirmed that he has no plans of helming a Star Wars or Star Trek movie. In a recent interview, the 20-year-old revealed that he does not intend to ever lead a major franchise project before providing an in-depth reasoning behind his bold decision.
Kane Parsons explains why he doesn’t want to direct a Star Wars movie
During his recent appearance on The Town with Matt Belloni, Parsons noted that he only sees himself working on “original projects” in the future.
When asked if he was “curious to do a Star Wars movie,” the Backrooms director bluntly replied, “No, I’m not too interested in IP work. I pretty much entirely want to focus on original projects. Just because I do this, because it’s my way of processing life, as is art, and I typically find needing to step into someone else’s view of life tends to just kind of damage the initial point for me.”
Further shedding light on the kind of projects he wants to do, Parsons added, “I think barring like one or two things from my personal childhood, stuff from the early 2000s, like one or two things really, without naming them out loud. The only ones I would look at are ones that have shaped my own experience of life so much that I feel like I have something to do with that conversation in the first place.”
Released across the nation on May 29, Backrooms has defied all expectations, with its current global box office collection sitting just over $140 million, as per Box Office Mojo. Despite his debut film’s financial performance, Parsons is in no hurry to put together a sequel.
Addressing rumors suggesting he has started to search for a screenwriter to pen a follow-up, the Backrooms director noted, “I’m not sure where that got out…That seems more like a hallucinated [thing].”
Originally reported by Apoorv Rastogi on SuperHeroHype.
