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Kaan Serin

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director's respect for the original JRPG's source material was influenced by a Disney live-action remake

Final Fantasy 7 Remake Cloud.

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's director has credited an unlikely live-action Disney remake for inspiring the team's work on reimagining the classic 1997 JRPG.

In a conversation with Spanish website Vandal, translated using machine learning, director Naoki Hamaguchi recalls a cinema trip in 2017 where he first watched the live-action Beauty and the Beast remake, saying it helped him think about what should "vary and differ from what is shown in the original," while the team was still early in development on Final Fantasy 7 Remake. 

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