If I had been into playing, I’d be very keen to place some huge cash into Lucasfilm’s first merchandise on their inner conferences being the upcoming Daisy Ridley-led Star Wars function movie, which Steven Knight is scripting and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy directing. (Taika Waititi’s challenge can be a not-so-distant #2 in my e-book.)
If you’ve been listening to among the newest cases from the Star Wars rumor mill you might need observed some headlines claiming that the title for the brand new movie has been uncovered — that is apparently coming from a Reddit put up that will or could not have been posted in current weeks, which mentioned the title of the movie can be Star Wars: A New Beginning. Allow us to throw a bit of sunshine on this.
Per sources, Lucasfilm hasn’t selected a title for the movie but and is extra targeted on getting the precise story proper for now. I hear that saying that is the title as of right now is totally incorrect, however sooner or later, a shortlist of doable titles can be thought-about, and “A New Beginning” will not be out of the query. Does that imply that there’s already a listing that features it? I personally wouldn’t be shocked, however couldn’t discover out.
Back in early April, Kathleen Kennedy mentioned that Lucasfilm was due a script by the tip of May. Of course, that by no means occurred, as a result of the Writers Guild of America went on strike on May 2, and union members had been requested to place their pencils down (or shut their FinalDraft home windows). With a brand new contract between the writers and the studios now ratified, scribes throughout the trade are again to work — together with Steven Knight. I speculated not too long ago that the tip of May window could have been moved to the tip of October, given Knight was allowed to open FinalDraft once more again in late September.
However, since they’ve stopped working for a very long time, and so they really can’t actually transfer ahead with pre-production till the SAG-AFTRA strike ends and so they can forged the film, I argued the studio might need given Knight time till Thanksgiving. Well, whereas they didn’t get into extra specifics, sources within the know say this end-of-October/Thanksgiving due date is within the ballpark of Lucasfilm’s precise plans. So it appears honest to imagine that by the Christmas break, Lucasfilm will at the least have learn the brand new script, and certain given notes as nicely.
According to studies from earlier this yr, taking pictures was scheduled to begin in April 2024 in London. However, if by Christmas we nonetheless don’t have a completed script and we haven’t even forged the film, that appears uncertain, to say the least. An August/September begin date appears rather more cheap, perhaps even barely optimistic. It all hinges on whether or not Knight’s draft is a winner with Lucasfilm and so they transfer ahead with this model of story, or not.
Think of further variables as nicely: Is anybody in addition to Daisy Ridley coming again too? The identify John Boyega is the primary to return to thoughts, clearly, and sooner or later, he will need to have come up in conversations inside Lucasfilm. John Rocha mentioned on the Hot Mic podcast a couple of months in the past that he’d heard he was in talks to return together with Ridley for this new movie.
Whether or not that’s true, that he’s been contacted looks as if a greater than cheap assumption, so we could also be in a state of affairs the place they might have to put in writing scripts with and with out him, in case he finally ends up backing down. The possible state of affairs is that, given his previous experiences with the sequel trilogy, he might need requested to see the script earlier than he writes his identify on the dotted line. Boyega himself has mentioned he’d be open to coming again, and earlier this summer time he did signal with UTA, one of many three massive Hollywood expertise businesses, which may signify he’s planning a giant comeback to the trade after doing smaller initiatives for a few years. Reps for Boyega didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Names like Adam Driver, Mark Hamill, or Oscar Isaac look like a lot larger stretches, and at most they’d be diminished to cameos — one thing that may be inserted into or taken out of the script relying on who agrees to return. The movie’s massive get nonetheless is, in fact, Daisy Ridley. While studies counsel she was not a part of Damon Lindelof’s story, the actress had a number of conferences with Lucasfilm in the direction of the tip of 2023 and repeated throughout a number of interviews at first of 2023 that she’d like to return. A little bit of an sudden twist, but it surely appears believable to imagine that Kathleen Kennedy and her staff weren’t in love with Lindelof’s concept of exploring an elder Rey and began exploring the potential for bringing Daisy again a few months earlier than Lindelof and Justin Britt-Gibson had been supposed to show of their draft. I think about additionally they had Steven Knight on maintain by then.
But is Daisy simply coming again, enterprise as typical? It looks as if an excellent guess that she was at the least given a multiple-film deal, however maybe much more than that. She has much more bargaining energy than she had again in 2013 when she signed to do The Force Awakens, and the story can be centered round her character, so it’s fully doable she will even have a job as a producer on the movie, just like how Diego Luna is an government producer on Andor. Such a deal would permit Ridley to be part of Lucasfilm’s conferences on the movie whereas SAG-AFTRA continues to be on strike. In different phrases, she wouldn’t be capable to rehearse the strains, however she may give her enter on the most recent story developments. For now, this stays fully speculatory. We have reached out to Ridley’s reps to attempt to affirm, however didn’t hear again.
As far as the discharge date goes, May 22, 2026, nonetheless appears within the playing cards, though I’m wondering if the continued SAG-AFTRA strike and the stream of delays it’s about to trigger will have an effect on it. Shooting at any time in 2024 appears greater than sufficient time to make it to May 2026, however who is aware of what the bottleneck of initiatives in want of VFX studios (and even your entire VFX panorama) will even appear to be by then.
Whatever the case could also be, it looks as if we’re about to get numerous Star Wars movie information, which is the proper Christmas present for us at Star Wars News Net! Stay tuned to have fun it with us.
Miguel Fernández is a Spanish pupil that has films as his second ardour in life. His favourite film of all time is The Lord of the Rings, however he’s additionally an enormous Star Wars fan. However, fantasy films should not his solely cup of tea, as films from Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he began to grasp the language of filmmaking. He is that man who will watch a black and white film, simply because it’s in black and white.
