Tetsuya Nomura har talt lidt om fødslen af det nyligt afslørede Final Fantasy VII: Remake, og har forklaret lidt om hvordan projektet blev til. Han løftede i den forbindelse sløret for en sjov historie, om hvordan han blev spillets instruktør:
I et interview med Famitsu (og via Kotaku) afslørede Nomura, at "a while ago, I tried to start up the project [to remake FFVII], but at the time it didn't come to fruition."
Senere kontaktede Square Enix's Shinji Hashimoto Nomura og den originale instruktør Yoshinoro Kitase omkring et potentielt remake, og det var sådan et projektet blev født: "Mr. Hashimoto was involved with the advertising and marketing of the original, so like [Mr. Kitase and myself], VII has a strong place in his heart."
"As preproduction went along and I offered my opinions on what I thought should be done, Mr. Kitase would asked me how the individual elements should be adjusted in fine detail. It was very perplexing. Then one day, as I was checking the internal company presentation video it said ‘Director Tetsuya Nomura' at the end."