The sh*tshow over at Kathleen Kennedy’s Lucasfilm continues. Disney has just pulled its December 2026 “Star Wars” movie from the release calendar.
The Wrap is hinting that the movie in question might be Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s ‘New Jedi Order,’ which had Daisy Ridley attached to reprise her role as Rey — it recently lost its main writer (Steven Knight) and I wouldn’t be surprised if the project has been totally scrapped.
Maybe Lucasfilm should just stop announcing all of these Star Wars projects until they are definitely happening, just my opinion. I get that the announcements are meant to make the stocks go up, but it’s not a good look, and gets people to further ridicule the brand.
Earlier in the year, I had posted about two separate sources familiar with the matter, telling me that Obaid-Chinoy’s Rey movie had been “delayed indefinitely.”
Knight was supposed to be pen the screenplay and I was told that, late last year, a draft had been submitted for the movie, but LucasFilm gave Knight so many notes that he had to start from scratch. He’s since decided to exit the project.
These issues with Knight come only two years after development on the Rey movie started, and various drafts had circulated, with different writers, including Damon Lindelof and Justin Brit-Gibson, both eventually exiting the project. Knight came aboard soon after, and has since followed in their footsteps by exiting the entire thing.
It was recently reported that Simon Kinberg was officially developing a trilogy of Star Wars movies for Lucasfilm chief Kathleen Kennedy. The trilogy, still in early development, would be composed of Episodes 10-12 of The Skywalker Saga.
Paul Greengrass’ "The Uprising," starring Andrew Garfield, opened to $3.2M from 2,068 theaters this weekend. Yikes. The budget hasn’t been disclosed, but is said to be in the $20-$30M range.