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"I would like to see a fierce Fantasia mixed with Blade Runner, Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars all in one. That's the kind of movies I want to make"

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Rodriguez is naming a wish list that reads less like a pitch deck than a dare: take the childlike, wordless rush of Fantasia and smash it into the industrial melancholy of Blade Runner, then strap on the mythic earnestness of Lord of the Rings and the crowd-pleasing propulsion of Star Wars. The mash-up is the point. She’s not describing a “genre”; she’s describing a scale of feeling Hollywood rarely permits in one package, especially from women who are usually hired to be the tough accessory, not the architect.

The intent is straightforwardly ambitious: she wants spectacle with teeth, awe without irony, and worlds big enough to justify emotional stakes. But the subtext is a quiet indictment of the lanes she’s been offered. Rodriguez built her brand on ferocity in male-dominated franchises (Fast & Furious, Resident Evil). When she says “fierce Fantasia,” she’s signaling that even beauty and wonder should have bite; the soft, decorative “magic” of mainstream fantasy is not her religion. Pairing it with Blade Runner adds moral grime and existential loneliness - a refusal of sanitized escapism.

Context matters: this is an actress talking like a creator, using blockbuster touchstones as a kind of shorthand for power. These are films that shaped modern franchise grammar, and she’s claiming the right to remix that grammar rather than just perform inside it. It’s also a savvy cultural read. Audiences already consume stories as crossovers in their heads; Rodriguez is articulating that appetite while challenging the industry’s tendency to compartmentalize imagination into marketable silos. Her dream movie isn’t chaos. It’s a demand for a bigger emotional bandwidth.

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Rodriguez, Michelle. (2026, January 17). I would like to see a fierce Fantasia mixed with Blade Runner, Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars all in one. That's the kind of movies I want to make. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-would-like-to-see-a-fierce-fantasia-mixed-with-51640/

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Rodriguez, Michelle. "I would like to see a fierce Fantasia mixed with Blade Runner, Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars all in one. That's the kind of movies I want to make." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-would-like-to-see-a-fierce-fantasia-mixed-with-51640/.

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"I would like to see a fierce Fantasia mixed with Blade Runner, Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars all in one. That's the kind of movies I want to make." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-would-like-to-see-a-fierce-fantasia-mixed-with-51640/. Accessed 26 Feb. 2026.

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Michelle Rodriguez (born July 12, 1978) is a Actress from USA.

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