Brad Bird gave up ‘Star Wars’ for ‘Tomorrowland’

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“It was difficult to turn down ‘Star Wars’. I’ve loved ‘Star Wars’ since I saw the original, and I know George Lucas.

“But when I was asked to direct Episode Seven, I was working on my own idea – ‘Tomorrowland’; we had a script we liked, George Clooney and Hugh Laurie had committed to it, and I didn’t know whether, if we lost that momentum, we’d ever recapture it,” Bird said.