Even though Star Wars: Episode VIII isn’t coming out for another two years, it’s never too early to start planning for Episode IX. Director Colin Trevorrow said that he will be shooting the film on film instead of digitally, following in the footsteps of The Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams.
“There’s something in my brain that says, ‘well they didn’t have video cameras then,'” Trevorrow said during a press conference at the Sundance Film Festival Thursday on using film in a mostly digital world, Variety reports.
“It’s a period film. It happened a long time ago,” the Jurassic World director joked.
Christopher Nolan, who shot Interstellar on film, and Fruitvale Station cinematographer Rachel Morrison also took part in the discussion. Nolan was particularly forceful about his advocacy for using film today. He was particularly annoyed with the media obsessing about projectors breaking down during roadshow screenings of Quentin Taranitno’s The Hateful Eight.
Nolan noted that the media leaped on “some little technical glitch as if it was his fault. As if he built the projector.” He added that digital projectors can break too, but those are rarely reported.
Trevorrow chimed in, saying that more directors need to talk about the advantages of film, since “there’s a danger to it turning into vinyl.”
Trevorrow was hired to direct Episode IX in August 2015 and the film will be released in 2019. In the meantime, Trevorrow is making another indie film, Book of Henry with Naomi Watts.