Taika Waititi is officially “trying to write” his Star Wars feature
The writer-director shares another update on the forthcoming film
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With Taika Waititi’s Star Wars film tentatively slated for a late 2023 release, which will mark a new installment of the franchise universe, the writer-director has an update for us: He is officially “trying to write” the script.
“I’m trying to write the Star Wars idea at the moment,” Waititi shares in an interview with the New York Times. “I’ve got to see how that goes, because once I submit it, that might determine when it gets made or if it gets made, even.”
If it ends up not making the cut (although that seems unlikely), Waititi says he’s “cool as well to take six months off and just go hang out with [his] kids.”
It’s not like he’s lacking work. In addition to the Star Wars feature, Waititi’s slated for a Time Bandits series at Apple TV+, two Roald Dahl projects for Netflix, and an adaptation of Alejandro Jodorowsky and Moebius’ The Incal. Not to mention, Flash Gordon, Akira, Next Goal Wins, and oh, the eventual second season of Our Flag Means Death for HBO Max. He’s also somehow set aside time for the second season of the Hulu series Reservation Dogs. Busy, busy man.
And, when it comes to actually writing the Star Wars script, Waititi’s previously said it feels “very him” and that he seeks to “expand” the universe.
“I don’t think that I’m any use in the Star Wars universe making a film where everyone’s like, ‘Oh great, well that’s the blueprints to the Millennium Falcon, ah that’s Chewbacca’s grandmother,’” the director recently told Total Film. “That all stands alone, that’s great, though I would like to take something new and create some new characters and just expand the world, otherwise it feels like it’s a very small story.”
Waititi’s next project, the highly anticipated Marvel sequel Thor: Love And Thunder, arrives in theaters on July 8.
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We are going to work this guy to death aren’t we?Looking forward to what he comes up with!
Love everything he’s done, but isn’t he just a producer on a lot of these? Maybe I’m wrong but unless he’s a micro-manager don’t they mostly just hire people to get stuff done and check in occasionally? If they were all full time jobs there’s no way he’s working on all this stuff simultaneously.
We? Speak for yourself. I’ve not made him do anything.
I’m worried this guy’s so irreverent that he might kill off all those precious Porgs.
Good.
He could make Jar Jar funny and appealing.
Jar Jar wasn’t nearly as bad in the Clone Wars ‘toon, imho.
Alright, he’s talented…he’s not a wizard!
I think I can help:
It takes place on Tattooine.
I half expect him to blow Tattooine up.
No biggie, they can just hire JJ Abrams to magically resurrect it in a sequel for no fucken reason.
Eh, or don’t. Sounds like he has plenty of other irons in the fire, and I think Star Wars is ready for a good long hiatus.
It’s going to be about a little boy whose imaginary friend is Sheev Palpatine, isn’t it?
JarJar Rancor
I’m thinking if they don’t even have a first draft of a script right now, late 2023 is not happening.
I don’t think that I’m any use in the Star Wars universe
making a film where everyone’s like, ‘Oh great, well that’s the
blueprints to the Millennium Falcon, ah that’s Chewbacca’s grandmother.’
I mean… I wouldn’t not watch a movie where Chewbacca’s grandmother steals the plans for the Millennium Falcon for some reason.
Is it going to be a comedy, like Solo was originally meant to be?
I’m trying to write his Star Wars movie too. I think he owes me money now.