More quotes keep coming from the Star Wars Celebration event, which has been taking place across the Easter weekend in the UK.
As we know, on Friday, three movies were announced within the Star Wars canon. James Mangold is doing a ‘Dawn of the Jedi’ film set some 25,000 years ago, while Dave Filoni is helming a big film bringing together the various Mandoverse shows.
However, as both have indicated, those films are some time away. Mangold has to promote the new “Indiana Jones” film and first has a Bob Dylan biopic that begins shooting in August. That will keep him occupied well into next year, not to mention a potential “Swamp Thing” film on the way too.
Filoni meanwhile has to launch “Ahsoka,” keep steering several Mandoverse shows, including an already written fourth season of “The Mandalorian,” and maybe do a second season of “Ahsoka” before work on the film begins.
Logically both aren’t likely to see a film go into production before late 2024 at the earliest and far more likely to not get going until at least 2025.
It’s the third film, however. that marks the franchise’s new hope. That film hails from documentarian and filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, who is doing a ‘New Jedi Order’-era film set 15 years after the events of “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”.
This is the one which will bring back Daisy Ridley as Rey, who is theoretically heading up a new Jedi Academy. We do know “Peaky Blinders” creator Steven Knight is penning that script.
In an interview with Yahoo UK late Saturday, Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy confirmed that the script for that one is due imminently and work on that one has already been underway for quite a while:
“We’ve been working on that [film] for a few years, and all of that feeds into our overall storytelling. So we’ve just got to a point now where we’ve got a wonderful writer in Steven Knight, he’s come on board and we’re going to see a script probably in the next month and a half that we’ve been working on for quite a while. So we’re getting close.
It’s such an evolution of conversations that we have all the time, and we knew coming off of The Rise of Skywalker that we needed to take that further. We just didn’t know how far out; we didn’t know exactly what the story might be – but now we have a much better idea.”
Kennedy wouldn’t reveal any planned release date. Should that script score approval and everything go smoothly, further polishes would be likely through the rest of the year for a 2024 shoot ahead of a 2025 release. Whatever the case, it’s looking like this will be the first new “Star Wars” film since ‘Skywalker’.
One this all these films will likely contain is the famed “Star Wars” opening crawl with Kennedy telling EW “the crawl’s coming back”, and they’re reserving it strictly for movies.
Also possible? Some of Rey’s prequel-trilogy friends might return, with Kennedy saying: “It’s entirely possible to see some people come back.”
