Lea Thompson says Marvel Studios actually liked her Howard The Duck reboot pitch - The A.V. Club

Earlier this month, Lea Thompson saw that Howard The Duck was trending on Twitter, so she wrote, “What if I get to direct [a Howard The Duck] Marvel reboot?” Turns out, she wasn’t kidding about the offer to finally give us a good onscreen version of the alien duck’s story.

During an oral history of the infamously terrible flick done with The Hollywood Reporter to celebrate the film’s 35th anniversary, it was revealed that Thompson actually sent that tweet mid-interview.

She was inspired by the cult classic status of the ‘80s movie.