James Mangold’s Star Wars film has picked up Home of Playing cards creator Beau Willimon as a co-writer, in response to The Hollywood Reporter.
A Star Wars veteran who additionally labored on the well-received Star Wars: Andor, Willimon will assist Mangold write the script for the movie. Its present working title is Star Wars: Daybreak of the Jedi and can inform a narrative in regards to the Pressure that takes place 25,000 years earlier than the film timelines followers know and love.
Willimon’s inclusion ought to excite Star Wars followers who tuned in for Andor final yr. He wrote three episodes of the present’s first season, together with its standout episode, One Manner Out. He was later nominated for an Emmy for his work on the present.
Different particulars stay below wraps, however we do at the very least know that the Logan director is trying to inform a narrative that isn’t shackled by the franchise’s lore. In June of final yr, he defined that he desires his movie to discover the origins of the Pressure.
“I need to be a part of the saga, however I additionally don’t need to be holding a lot lore within the air you can hardly inform a narrative,” he stated.
Mangold continued: “What I actually needed to do, what I instructed [Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy], was simply can we make a sort of the Ten Commandments of the Pressure? A sort of origin story of how the Pressure got here to be recognized, understood, wielded, and harnessed.”
Daybreak of the Jedi doesn’t have a agency launch date but, so it might be years earlier than we see what Mangold has deliberate. The Mandalorian and Grogu film ought to assist with the wait, although, as it’s set to reach on Might 22, 2026. Disney+ exhibits, like Star Wars: Tales of the Empire and The Acolyte, are scheduled to begin streaming on Might 4, 2024, and June 4, 2024, respectively.
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