Late final evening, Above the Line reported that screenwriters Damon Lindelof (Watchmen, The Leftovers) and Justin Britt-Gibson are not hooked up to the Star Wars universe. They have been initially tied to an untitled Star Wars undertaking alongside Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. Obaid-Chinoy is an Emmy and Oscar successful documentarian who just lately gained extra fiction credit when she directed two episodes of Ms. Marvel.
This information comes virtually instantly after Lindelof’s musings at SXSW the place he mentioned to Slashfilm, “the diploma of issue is extraordinarily, extraordinarily, extraordinarily excessive” relating to creating a movie for Star Wars. Lindelof went on to say that “If it may’t be nice, it shouldn’t exist… I believe it’s potential that typically whenever you maintain one thing in such excessive reverence and esteem, you begin to get within the kitchen and also you simply go, ‘Perhaps I shouldn’t be cooking. Perhaps I ought to simply be consuming.’ We’ll simply depart it at that time.”
Deadline had beforehand reported that Lindelof was one of many causes that Lucasfilm introduced a director onto the undertaking early. Sources say that each events wished the director’s imaginative and prescient to be mirrored within the script from early growth. Above the Line reviews that Lindelof and Britt-Gibson completed a draft of the script and existed the image only some days later. Manufacturing will not be meant to begin till early 2024, and the discharge date is slated for Dec 19, 2025.
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