Filmmaker Taika Waititi has offered a brief new update on his “Star Wars” movie as part of a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
The “Thor: Love and Thunder” and “Jojo Rabbit” director tells the trade the long-gestating project remains just that as he’s still working on the script when he can.
That’s progress from last year when the New Zealander said he hadn’t been working much on the film as yet, and there was no chance of it starting in 2023 due to his work on other projects.
Even so, with him confirmed as the sole writer of the project, and with Lucasfilm’s Kathleen Kennedy saying only ‘one day’ they’ll make the movie, there appears to be no hurry to push it towards any kind of production:
“I’ve got a really good idea for it. It’s just as with all films. It’s this middle part. You’re like, ‘What’s going to happen?’ And then you look at all of those films that are so great, you’re like, ‘Well, I guess they can’t meet some smuggler with an alien sidekick.’ “
Waititi’s project was not one of the three “Star Wars” film projects announced on a panel at Star Wars Celebration the other month, with those projects being directed by James Mangold, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Dave Filoni.
As such, when Waititi’s might go forward remains decidedly unclear. The next “Star Wars” film will be Obaid-Chinoy’s feature which will star Daisy Ridley and will be set years after the events of “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”.
