In a world of escalating budgets – and along with it, escalating risks – there are a handful of directors who have brought in incredibly epic films on comparatively minimal budgets. Gareth Edwards – a former Godzilla director himself – recently delivered a visual feast in The Creator for $80m (incredibly frugal compared to most modern blockbuster budgets that fly well above $200m), while the VFX director, writer and director of Godzilla Minus One Takashi Yamazaki made his film for $15m (to put it into perspective, six episodes of Marvel’s Secret Invasion cost $212m, enough money to make Godzilla Minus One 14 times over). With decades of Lucasfilm innovation as an independent company, changing the VFX world to allow dazzling visuals on tight budgets, Yamazaki would seem to be a logical choice for future Star Wars projects brought in on a tighter budget, something the multi-tasking director would very much welcome.

ShlashFilm: Yamazaki-san, you’ve done movies based on a lot of big manga and properties like “Godzilla.” I’m curious, is there one dream project that you haven’t done, one property or franchise that you want to play with?

Yamazaki: I watched “Star Wars,” and that’s how I ended up being a filmmaker, and I’m really hoping I will get a call and they will me bring me on “Star Wars.” I think a more Japanese or even just Eastern take on “Star Wars,” I think, would be really, really interesting, so I hope they call me up.