{"id":314548,"date":"2026-02-28T10:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T10:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/314548\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T10:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T10:23:10","slug":"baz-luhrmann-passed-on-a-silver-surfer-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/314548\/","title":{"rendered":"Baz Luhrmann Passed On A Silver Surfer Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>20th Century Studios<\/p>\n

Australian filmmaker Baz Luhrmann has recently been out promoting his Elvis Presley concert film \u201cEPiC\u201d and has been getting ready to shoot his new Joan of Arc biopic with Isla Johnston (\u201cThe Queen\u2019s Gambit\u201d) starring.<\/p>\n

As a director, Luhrmann has been on the scene for almost four decades now after breaking through with 1992\u2019s \u201cStrictly Ballroom\u201d. But he\u2019s also famously picky with his projects, this Elvis concert film marking only his seventh directorial feature in all that time.<\/p>\n

Recently, the filmmaker did an interview with Happy Sad Confused<\/a> where he touched upon the projects that got away from him over the years and revealed that at one point he was offered the chance to do a Marvel feature based on the \u201cFantastic Four\u201d character, The Silver Surfer.<\/p>\n

In the chat, he reveals this offer seemingly came in the early 1990s, sometime after \u201cStrictly Ballroom\u201d came out, and he ended up instead opting for 1996\u2019s \u201cRomeo + Juliet\u201d as his second feature. He says:<\/p>\n

I very stupidly said \u2018no\u2019 to\u2026the first versions of a couple of extraordinarily super iconic\u2026franchises, and I would be a very wealthy person [had I directed them]. So I was pretty silly.<\/p>\n

My brand is about taking stuff that people think is cheesy or forgotten or even new works, but primary stuff. I need to prove it to be relevant and new and fresh and of the moment. I\u2019m not quite sure why, but it is [my] brand.<\/p>\n

This will become a lot of clickbait, but way back in the day, I just thought, oh, I love Silver Surfer so much. Before Marvel was so big, you know, this was really early. And the guy who owned Marvel sent me all those Silver Surfer toys and books and I went like, hmm, philosophical, surfer in space, you know. But alas, no, I did \u2018Romeo and Juliet\u2019 instead. It worked out for everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n

Luhrmann confirmed he was definitely offered \u201cSpider-Man\u201d and the first \u201cHarry Potter\u201d but wasn\u2019t interested. His \u201cJoan of Arc\u201d film is partly inspired by two other failed projects of his \u2013 biopics of Alexander the Great and Napoleon. For the full interview, head to Happy Sad Confused<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"20th Century Studios Australian filmmaker Baz Luhrmann has recently been out promoting his Elvis Presley concert film \u201cEPiC\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[63746,146,85,46,397],"class_list":["post-314548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}