Nia DaCosta, the director behind 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, has revealed during a Reddit Ask Me Anything that she’s a major Final Fantasy fan, and name-dropped the likes of Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy X, and Final Fantasy X-2 among her favourite entires in the series.
It’s not just the games that DaCosta is a fan of though, as she also mentioned Final Fantasy VII Advent Children, noting it was influential in her work on The Marvels. She did, however, acknowledged that Final Fantasy X-2 may not be to everyone’s tastes, stating, “I never said I was a role model.”
Advent Children was a huge movie for me and that fight in the church between Tifa and Loz is so fucking epic. I also loved at the end everyone throwing Cloud into the sky (fuck physics). During early development of The Marvels there was a fight scene in the core of a planet where the gravity keeps shifting and I thought the way the church fight and that sequence at the end dealt with weightlessness was a great.
While we’re on the subject of Square Enix’s venerable RPG series, the team are currently working on the third and final chapter in the Final Fantasy VII Remake project, which is targeting a 2027 release window. The series’ director, Naoki Hamaguchi, recently touched on a possible Final Fantasy VI Remake, stating he would prefer that someone else tackles the project if it were to happen.
[Source – Reddit AMA w/Nia DaCosta via GamesRadar]