There hasn’t been an actual Star Wars movie since 2019’s “The Rise of Skywalker” and the franchise’s next film was said to be years away, until today.
But here’s some very big news I can report: Damon Lindelof’s Star Wars movie, set in the sequel trilogy era, will start production in April. The film will have a new set of leads, but some characters from the last Disney trilogy will be making an appearance.
Lindelof is writing the movie alongside Justin Britt-Gibson, while Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (Ms. Marvel) will be takin over as the director of this one.
Obviously, with “Andor” being such a huge success for Disney, both critically and commercially, it’s quite conceivable to think that Disney figured this was the right time to make a new Star Wars movie. However, there are plenty of fans who are still upset with how the last trilogy turned out. The Star Wars lost many diehards who vowed never to return in the process.
A planned trilogy from "The Last Jedi" director Rian Johnson, originally announced in 2017, has been put in the backburner, but Johnson recently said he still hopes to make it.
My advice to Disney is simple: DON’T RE-HIRE JOHNSON. Not because he’s a bad filmmaker, he’s actually a pretty good one. No, it stems more from the fact that a majority of Star Wars diehards just plainly do not like him for what he did with ‘The Last Jedi.’ Whether they warm up to Lindelof and Obaid-Chinoy is a whole other story…
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