Donald Glover is taking over writing duties on Disney+’s Lando show
Glover and his brother, Stephen Glover, will now serve as sole writers for the streaming Star Wars series
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Donald Glover is set to bring his Lando Calrissian expertise up to the next level, Variety reports, with news breaking today that Glover will now be writing Disney+’s planned Lando show. He’ll be working with his brother and frequent collaborator, Stephen Glover. The duo will be replacing Dear White People’s Justin Simien on writing duties for the series, which was announced back in late 2020.
The Glovers are, of course, no strangers to writing TV; between the two of them, the pair wrote about half of Glover’s starring vehicle Atlanta, and, most recently, both worked on the Donald Glover-produced Swarm. (They also co-wrote FX’s shuttered animated adaptation of Deadpool, which remains one of the great truly odd “What might have been?”s of modern TV.) Now the sibling duo will take on sole writing duties on Lando, details of which are, honestly, just about nil. Glover originally played the part of Billy Dee Williams’ Empire Strikes Back anti-hero back in 2018 for Solo: A Star Wars Story, which was written by Jonathan and Lawrence Kasdan. The new series will presumably focus on Lando doing Lando-type stuff, as Disney continues to relegate all of its more active Star Wars work to TV for the foreseeable future.
The deal for the Glovers to take over the Lando series was apparently struck back before the Writers Guild Of America went on strike—which presumably also means it had nothing to do with the modest performance of Simien’s latest Disney project, The Haunted Mansion, which is expected to open in third-place at the box office this weekend beneath the combined might of Barbie and Oppenheimer. Glover, meanwhile, is keeping a busy schedule, post-Atlanta; Most notably, he’s still working on the Mr. And Mrs. Smith show, which is part of his and Stephen’s overall deal at Amazon.
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That’s gotta be a good thing, right?
“I’ve just made a deal that’ll keep Iger out of here forever.”-Donald Glover, presumably
now i’m interested.
I don’t watch the show, but I love that this move is going to trigger all the maga snowflakes. I was going to say Twatter is going to be extra toxic, but I doubt the increase in blatant racism will even be noticeable.
Nobody watches the show, Glover hasn’t written it yet.
Um, no one watches the show because it hasn’t aired yet.
it felt like an ai-generated comment.
So, does that make … you … the straw man in this?
Ok now I am looking forward to some weird shit.
I’m confident that Disney/Lucasfilm will step out of the way and follow Glover’s lead. The last time he played Lando, the executives were famously hands-off and deferential to the creative team.
Wait isn’t that the film that Lord and Miller got fired from?
lol
on one hand, yes donald and stephen glover are very good writers. on the other hand, i sure would like to see new writers involved here. on the other other hand, the new writers they’ve hired are obama’s kids. would like to see alden ehrenreich back, but i also don’t really care at all!
I think you and me are the 2 people in the whole world who thought he did a decent job…
solo is my least favorite star wars movie but i thought he did fine and he really stood out in oppenheimer. if glover’s getting a do-over i’d like to see ehrenreich get one too.
He’s great in ‘Hail Caesar!’ Were that it twer haha!
like i said, he stood out in oppenheimer and my immediate thought was ‘he should do a coens movie he’d be great in that’ and then i remembered that he did and he was.it’s a shame there’s no real comedy ecosystem anymore because he would be great in the types of movies adam mckay used to do.
Yep, dude’s got great timing.
He did do a decent job. What’s wrong with the movie is not his fault.
Justin Bieber shot first.
I liked his Lando on SNL:“Before I made a living playing cards. . . and doing other stuff that’s not really explained. . . “
Disney keeps hiring great talent, developing shows for years and then quietly shelving projects. No one can tell me Simien didn’t turn in great work. I just cannot imagine the Glovers will be able to thread the needle. Donald Glover has a great reputation for creative purity; I can’t see his work making it through the development grinder. The budgets are so big no one on the exec side feels comfortable taking real risks. Truly wish they would Blumhouse the Star Wars franchise and make unique, affordable projects.
I’m cynical about Star Wars. It’s good to be cynical about Star Wars. But combining the aesthetics of Atlanta and Star Wars makes me more excited than a middle-aged man should be.