Kevin Feige confirms he won’t be making a Star Wars either

So, obviously, Kevin Feige isn’t going to make a Star Wars. We more or less knew that already, but Feige himself confirmed as much in conversation with Entertainment Tonight at the premiere of The Marvels. Asked directly if the film was still on, Feige gave a definitive “No.”

All the way back in 2019, Feige—who was apparently inspired to get into the movie business after watching Star Wars—shared his excitement about making his own Star War with The Hollywood Reporter. He said, “I love that world and I love the notion of exploring new people and new places in that universe.” In 2022, Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness scribe Michael Waldron teased Feige’s vision for a galaxy far, far away, telling Variety, “We’re finally into it in earnest. I mean, I’m writing away. It’s a lot of fun. I’m enjoying having the freedom on that to do something that’s not necessarily a sequel or anything. It maybe has a little bit less of a—it just doesn’t have a bunch of TV shows and movies that you’re servicing on top of it, the way I did with Doctor Strange. So it’s nice. It feels like a different exercise.”

Interesting to describe a Star Wars installment, which famously has a lot of offshoot canon, as something that “doesn’t have a bunch of TV shows and movies” on top of it. That doesn’t fully fit with the timeline of releases that were eventually announced in 2023, most of which were quite heavily steeped in Star Wars lore. In any case, Lucasfilm boss Kathleen Kennedy claimed to IGN earlier this year that “nothing ever got developed” from Feige’s side, so perhaps the work wasn’t as earnestly in progress as Waldron once suggested.

The real question on many fans’ minds is, will any of these Star Wars films ever get off the ground? The slate announced in April was ambitious, but more frequently the news out of Lucasfilm is movies being canceled, not produced. The studio has experienced critical success with its television output, but the films all seem to fall apart before they ever even had a chance to come together. Surely there will be more big-screen Star Wars someday, but for some reason, Lucasfilm seems to be having trouble cracking the formula it created.