Of the numerous Star Wars movie concepts floating around right now, it’s one of the intriguing: James Mangold’s plans to take us again tens of hundreds of years earlier than the movies, earlier than virtually every little thing we’ve ever recognized about Star Wars, to explore the origins of the earliest wielders of the Power. And now it’s discovered a equally intriguing Star Wars connection in its author, for very completely different causes.
The Hollywood Reporter has phrase that Mangold’s movie has tapped Home of Playing cards creator Beau Willimon to jot down the script for what’s tentatively known as Star Wars: Daybreak of the Jedi. Mangold is predicted to start specializing in the movie after the completion of his present venture—A Full Unknown, the musical Bob Dylan biopic with Dune’s Timothée Chalamet.
This isn’t Willimon’s first tangle with the galaxy far, far-off, nonetheless. He wrote one of many most incredible arcs of the already incredible first season of Andor—the jail storyline in “Narkina 5”, “Nobody’s Listening!”, and “One Way Out”. A tense jail breakout of bizarre individuals put upon by the grips of fascism is clearly a very different kind of Star Wars to the theological concepts concerning the start of the Jedi and the exploration of the Power a film like Mangold’s goals to discover, however that is the sort of information that makes you arise and be eager about simply what Lucasfilm is perhaps attempting to go for because it re-aligns its Star Wars film slate.
We’ll carry you extra on James Mangold’s Star Wars film, and all the other ones, as and after we study it.
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