Rumors of the demise of Taika Waititi’s Star Wars film have been tremendously exaggerated. On Monday, World of Reel shared a paywalled Patreon submit from trade insider DanielRPK the place he stated that Waititi’s long-announced characteristic was “useless”. We can verify this isn’t the case.
One Take News (OTN) was first to report that his Star Wars film was in growth previous to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes and can proceed as soon as they conclude. After OTN printed their report, we have now additionally confirmed with a supply that our story from final week, the place we argued that Taika Waititi’s feedback on the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) have been a joke, was correct. The venture continues to be alive at Lucasfilm and Waititi ought to return to work as soon as the strike is over.
Drama over Waititi’s film resurfaced as soon as extra when he took to the stage to current Shawn Levy an award at TIF, and joked that he would by no means end his Star Wars script. You can watch the clip under:
Taika Waititi honors Shawn Levy on the TIFF Tribute Awards: “Shawn has resisted the consolation of sameness in profession, leading to work that’s audacious in its vary of genres.” https://t.co/XkWfqBFsIz pic.twitter.com/kKBOz9In2W
— Variety (@Variety) September 11, 2023
The movie was formally introduced again in 2020. As far as the place Taika Waititi is at in 2023, Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy has beforehand stated that they’re having a small delay in crafting the third act. Not serving to the issue is Waititi’s schedule, who all the time appears to be somebody who bites off greater than they will chew. His subsequent movie Next Goal Wins hits theatres later this yr.
Meanwhile, there’s an off-chance the WGA strike is likely to be nearing its conclusion with the writers and the AMPTP assembly as soon as extra on Wednesday. Of course even when a deal is made, official work on ending scripts received’t resume instantly. Earlier this yr, a Deadline report stated that Waititi desires to start manufacturing on his movie in 2024. According to Variety, the writer-director would have been in negotiations with the studio earlier this yr to star within the venture as effectively.
In any case, it isn’t anticipated for Taika Waititi’s movie to be taken up by one of many three dates Lucasfilm at present has set for Star Wars motion pictures, two in 2026 and one in December 2027. Crazier issues have occurred although so keep tuned!
UPDATE:
After posting the story, we observed reporter Jeff Sneider from AboveTheLine.com stated on the Hot Mic podcast that Waititi has already turned in a number of drafts of the script, which we assume from Kathleen Kennedy’s and his personal previous feedback, and that he owes them one other one as soon as the writers are allowed to return to work, which we additionally assumed.
However, apparently sufficient, Sneider additionally stated that different writers have contributed to the script, although no names have been talked about. Krysty Wilson-Cairns was initially introduced to be co-writing the script with Waititi, however we assumed she was not hooked up after a imprecise remark from her final yr and particularly after Kennedy stated that Waititi “is writing the script himself.”
Stay tuned in case extra info is revealed.
Nate makes use of his love for Star Wars and flicks normally as a approach to deal with the ache of being a Minnesota sports activities fan. When he isn’t on the theater, you possibly can normally discover Nate studying a comic book, listening to an audiobook, or taking part in a Mario online game for the 1,000th time.
