No, the Star Wars venture from Taika Waititi has not been quietly axed, based on Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy. Kennedy additionally addressed rumors about Rian Johnson’s still-nowhere-to-be-seen spin-offs and the potential of one other season of Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Talking to Variety, Kathleen Kennedy defined that regardless of the emphasis on the newly-announced Star Wars films by Dave Filoni, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, and James Mangold, the absence of sure administrators on current tasks doesn’t imply that their tasks are usually not transferring ahead anymore. To the opposite, she said that Taika Waititi continues to be exhausting at work on his script:
“Taika continues to be working away. He’s writing the script himself. He doesn’t actually wish to deliver others into that course of and I don’t blame him. He has a really, very distinctive voice. So we wish to defend that and that’s what he’s doing. But we’re going to make that someday.”
Taikai Waititi was beforehand engaged on the script alongside 1917 scribe Krysty Wilson-Cairns, however it seems that she has moved on from the venture as he focuses on making the script his personal. Unlike that untitled venture, no replace was supplied for the movie being directed by Shawn Levy, who was introduced to be directing a Star Wars venture of his personal final November. For lack of an evidence, we should always assume that the identical state of affairs applies to him. Kennedy did, nevertheless, deal with the standing of the Rian Johnson tasks, as soon as once more affirming that they are going to be made on his schedule and he’s at present targeted on quite a lot of different issues, just like the third Benoit Blanc movie for Netflix and the second season of Poker Face for Peacock:
“Rian and I discuss on a regular basis. He is unbelievably busy. So we’re not actively concerned in something in the meanwhile as a result of he’s doing one other one of many Glass Onion films after which God is aware of what else. But he actually desires to step again into the house. It’s a giant dedication of time, in order that’s actually on him.”
It seems that will probably be a very long time till Johnson begins work on Star Wars once more, when and if that ever occurs. To shift the main focus again to now and with regards to movies that have been introduced this weekend, the return of Daisy Ridley as Rey Skywalker served as one of many most-discussed flip of occasions on the panel. Per Kennedy, Ridley was straightforward to promote on extra Star Wars, and she or he was more than pleased to look yesterday on the conference:
“It was a fairly simple cellphone name. I began out by simply saying, ‘Hey, I feel we’re getting close to being prepared.’ We’ve been speaking rather a lot about what we’re doing within the film house and I mentioned, ‘I feel we’re getting near being prepared. How would you wish to go to Celebration?’ That was actually the start of it. She was out of her thoughts excited.”
The dialog additionally shifted towards the way forward for Disney Plus. While Obi-Wan Kenobi was an unlimited hit for the streaming service, Kennedy has said that Lucasfilm is just not actively creating a second season at this second in time (with their concentrate on their slate of exhibits for 2023 to 2024 and the newly-announced movies). Even so, they’ve said that they’re actually open to the concept of doing extra:
“That is just not an lively improvement, however I by no means say by no means, as a result of there’s all the time the chance. That present was so well-received and [director] Deborah Chow did such a spectacular job. Ewan McGregor actually desires to do one other. Everybody’s all palms on deck with what we’re doing proper now, as you may see by what we confirmed all people [at the Celebration]. We’ll flip our consideration to that once more possibly down the street.”
As it stands proper now, Lucasfilm has two launch dates scheduled for future Star Wars films: December 19, 2025, and December 17, 2027. Of the three introduced tasks at Celebration, James Mangold’s will likely be a “biblical epic” depicting the traditional previous of the Jedi and the galaxy far, far-off, Dave Filoni’s will function a culminating occasion within the saga of tv exhibits kicked off by The Mandalorian, and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s will deliver again Daisy Ridley to play Rey Skywalker in a narrative set fifteen years after The Rise of Skywalker as she helps prepare the following era of Jedi. Details on Taika Waititi, Shawn Levy, and Rian Johnson’s tasks stay obscure.
Conversely, Kathleen Kennedy has insisted that Kevin Feige’s Star Wars venture by no means went wherever, and it doesn’t seem like ready to maneuver ahead as he at present types out an bold Marvel slate. In the meantime, Rogue Squadron has been placed on the back-burner – seemingly with out the involvement of previously-announced director Patty Jenkins – however the studio is open to revisiting the venture, both on movie as initially deliberate, or redeveloped as a tv collection.
Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for so long as he can keep in mind, having seen each film on the massive display screen. When he’s not exhausting at work together with his faculty research, he retains himself busy by reporting on every kind of Star Wars information for SWNN and basic film information on the sister website, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.
