This Is Why Christopher McQuarrie's StarBlazers Live-Action Adaptation Never Happened [Exclusive]
One of the greatest elements of science fiction is that it gets to comment on society and estimate where we’ll be in the future based on trends and behavior. This can come in any form, be it in high-profile dramas like Black Mirror, an ambitious adventure like Avatar: The Way of Water, or even a kid’s animated TV show called Star Blazers, which premiered in 1979 and ran for 77 episodes spread across three seasons.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT During the press tour for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, director Christopher McQuarrie spoke about how the Star Blazers series was very dear to his heart—and why it never made its way to the live-action format. During the interview, McQuarrie told Collider's Steve Weintraub that while he loves Star Blazers, he doesn't feel that studio execs share the same passion for the IP.
The problem [with] 'Star Blazers' is there wasn't an element there. You didn't have a big name that got them excited, mine didn't seem to, and the IP didn't really get them excited. What I've learned from pitching—and why I'll just never do it again, ever—is, essentially, what you're doing is going around town and showing people what they're not buying. They just want to make sure that what they're not buying is not something somebody else wants.
Star Blazers is Ten Years in the Making, But Apparently Adrift in Space In addition to explaining that he had to expand the Star Blazers universe in order to make his pitches more appealing, McQuarrie suggested that the universe “could have gone on forever.” He reminded us that this is a project he’s “been working on going back 10 years or more.
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