Star Wars prepares 3 new movies: first jedis, imperial wars and the New Order

There were doubts (and some fear) about what would be presented at Lucasfilm’s Studio Showcase at Star Wars Celebration Europe in London this weekend, but luckily for all, the joy among the fans in attendance has skyrocketed with the announcement of three new Star Wars movies that will tell us about the past, present and future of the saga.

“I imagine a lot of people in this room are waiting to hear us say something about what we’re doing with the Star Wars movies,” said a proud Kathleen Kennedy after the obvious review of the Star Wars series. “We’re very excited to share some news with you today. As you see with all the series we’re doing, we’re covering a lot of different stages, is a response to what George Lucas said a few years ago, that he created Star Wars to move back and forth in the timeline of his mythology.“.

“Now we are going to take care of that timeline by bringing a rich future, expanding into the present, going deep into the past to tell our stories.“, he added while an interesting timeline was seen on the screen. “We are excited to have some of the best and most passionate filmmakers in projects that will expand the past, present and future. It’s still very early days, but we’ve invited some of the directors to join us today.”

The Past According to James Mangold: The First Jedis

“James is going to take us to the remotest past to tell you the story of the first Jedis. and how their power freed them at a time of chaos and oppression,” Kennedy said.

James Mangold, responsible for jewels such as ‘Copland’ (1997), ‘Girl, Interrupted’ (1999), ‘Logan’ (2017) and ‘Le Mans ’66’ (2019) seems to have convinced the president of Lucasfilm with the result of his latest work, the imminent ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Fate’ (2023).

“When I started talking to Kathleen about doing one of these movies, what came to my mind was what kind of genre movie within Star Wars? I would like to do and I thought of a kind of biblical epic like ‘The Ten Commandments’ to see the dawn of the Force,” explains the director. “Where does the Force come from? When did we discover it? When did we know how to use it? The story started to unfold and with the wonderful help of all the brilliant Canaanite and Star Wars and timeline historians we came up with some kind of amazing story to tell the dawn of the force 25,000 years before this guy us. make appear. So it’s an exciting story and I can’t wait to tell it.”

The present according to Dave Filoni: the embers of the Empire

“Expanding our present, Dave Filoni will orchestrate the war between what remains of the Empire and the New Republictogether with producer Jon Favreau will make many of the threats of our series in that cinematic event that we promise you”, presents Kennedy.

Dave Filoni is a fan favorite Star Wars scholar. To him we owe ‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ and ‘Star Wars Rebels’ the best animated series in the franchise, and without him Jon Favreau would not have had it so easy with ‘The Mandalorian’. Together they have produced and created the three seasons, ‘The Book of Boba Fett’ and, already with Filoni at the helm, this summer we will enjoy ‘Ahsoka’.

“I’m excited, I’m going to make a movie!” Filoni, already with the public on their feet, continues: “we look at everything, at the old and at the new things that were created while we were thinking about this and we are putting them all together. We are going to make into an epic battle that takes place, unfortunately for our heroes afterwards, after ‘Return of the Jedi’ and just before ‘The Force Awakens’“.

The Future According to Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy: The New Jedi Order

“Looking to the future, 15 years after the events of ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’, Sharmeen will tell us the story of the reconstruction of the new Jedi Order and the powers it awakens.“.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, winner of two Oscars for her documentary shorts ‘Saving Face’ (2011) and ‘A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness’ (2015), and responsible for different chapters of ‘Ms. Marvel’, will be responsible for this complicated task.

“I’ve always been drawn to the hero’s journey and the fact that the world needs so many more heroes,” he explains. “The hero blueprints we see on screen are tied to real life, and I’ve spent much of my life meeting real heroes who find themselves downtrodden, redeemed, and victorious against impossible struggles. I think that’s the heart of Star Wars , It’s what drew me to the promise of the New Jedi Order and immersing myself in a Jedi academy with a powerful Jedi master.“.

It was then that the 4,500 attendees witnessed the mysterious Jedi master that, to the joy of the good people, it turned out that Daisy Ridley returns to Star Wars, that is, Rey, the character we met in ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens. ‘ (JJ Abrams, 2015), we saw grow in ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ (Rian Johnson, 2017) and we said goodbye to as best we could in ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’ (JJ Abrams, 2019).