After the success of Ahsoka and the recent announcement of a Lando movie with Donald Glover, it’s still time to talk about Taika Waititi’s standalone Star Wars feature. Before the project was rumored to be cancelled, we learned that the director of Thor: Love & Thunder and Jojo Rabbit is still writing his Star Wars movie.
FYI, 3 more Star Wars movies have been officially announced, directed by James Mangold, Sharmin Obaid-Chinoy, and Dave Filoni. The Patty Jenkins project, which has been postponed several times, seems to have stalled.
As for the Taika Waititi movie, the site Star Wars News Net states that “the project is still in development at Lucasfilm”. Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy said last April variety, that the film, which was announced for 2020, was being written but had “a slight delay in the development of the third act”.
He elaborated: “The script is written by Taika Waititi himself. He doesn’t really want to involve other people in the process, and I don’t blame him. He has a very unique voice. So we want to protect him and he does. But we will make this movie one day“.
Taika Waititi talked about his friend’s career at a tribute to Sean Levy at the Toronto Film Festival on September 11, saying that one day the latter could direct a Star Wars film. He continued jokingly and then said: “Unlike me, we hope that he will be able to finish the script by now.“
The director and screenwriter who won the 2020 Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for Jojo Rabbit seems to be really struggling to write his Star Wars movie. Please note that this should be an independent film and not be connected to other parts of the saga. At the beginning of the year, Taika Waititi planned to start production on his film in 2024, but with the writers and actors strike still going on in Hollywood, that seems to have been compromised.
Especially since the director has many projects, including the Time Bandits series. He has also been announced as the director of several adaptations over the years: the film adaptation of Tower of Terror with Scarlett Johansson, the live-action adaptation of Akira – albeit less developed than Star Wars – the novel Clara and the Sun, and the TV series adaptation. Adaptation of the novel in Inner China.
With more to come on these multiple projects, his film A Dream Team with Michael Fassbender hits theaters on December 20th.
Source: Allocine
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