Andor was such an surprising, hovering success that we’re stunned extra of the group behind the sequence hasn’t been snapped up rapidly to work on different tasks at Lucasfilm. Well, now one among them has – Beau Willimon, who was a core a part of Tony Gilroy’s writing group (he scripted the very good mini-arc set within the Narkina 5 jail advanced), is now aboard to co-write massive display screen effort Star Wars: Dawn Of The Jedi with director James Mangold.
Mangold – who beforehand directed Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny for Lucasfilm – has been engaged on the script but in addition turning his consideration to manufacturing on his Bob Dylan biodrama A Complete Unknown. So it is sensible him including a co-writer to work on the Star Wars challenge at the moment often known as Dawn Of The Jedi, which was introduced final 12 months at Star Wars Celebration in London.
“It takes place 25,000 years earlier than Episode IV, and it’s in regards to the discovery of the Force,” Mangold informed Empire on the occasion. “I informed Kathy [Kennedy, head of Lucasfilm] I needed to make a type of Bible film, a type of Ten Commandments of Star Wars – type of a Cecil B. DeMille movie in regards to the arrival of the Force, and that’s what I’ve been pecking away at between press occasions. That’s the concept.”
And that is not the one Star Wars information to emerge — we now know that the seemingly subsequent massive display screen story set within the galaxy far, distant, The Mandalorian & Grogu, has been set for a 22 May, 2026 launch date.
In associated Disney movie launch information, Toy Story 5 will emerge the identical 12 months, on 19 June, whereas the live-action tackle Moana follows on 10 July (animated sequel Moana 2, do not forget, is dated for 29 November this 12 months within the UK.)
