Date 29/11/2015 - News People
Director Ron Howard revealed that his credit of blockbuster films could have once included Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace. In a podcast interview on Happy Sad Confused with Josh Horowitz, the director said that he along with Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg passed on golden offers from Lucas to direct the franchise prequels. ?He didn?t necessarily want to direct them,?said Howard. ?He told me that he had talked to [Robert] Zemeckis, he talked to me, he talked to Steven Spielberg.