Taika Waititi might be coming to a galaxy far, far, away sooner than you think
The director's Star Wars film is tentatively planned for release in late 2023
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Taika Waititi’s Star Wars feature film may be coming to a theater near you in 2023.
This week has been loaded with LucasFilm announcements coming out of the annual Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim. Notably, fans have been treated to trailers for the new Willow series that will be coming to Disney Plus, a teaser photo for the third season of The Mandalorian, and the long-awaited trailer for the Andor series which will follow Diego Luna’s character from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
Since the release of Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker, Kathleen Kennedy and LucasFilm have focused more on streaming than on feature-length theatrical films. A potential trilogy from Last Jedi writer/director Rian Johnson has been on hold, but it looks like Star Wars is coming back to the big screen in “late 2023” according to Kennedy.
The producer admits, during an interview with TotalFilm, that nothing has been locked in yet, but she has reiterated that she wants the franchise to move away from the Skywalker Saga. “We need to create a whole new saga,” Kennedy explained. “That takes a lot. There’s a lot of conversation around that.”
While Waititi himself didn’t offer an update on the script he’s working on, last August the writer/director told Wired that the movie feels “very me,” which is a good sign… considering he’s writing it.
Waititi is part of an elite group that dabbles in both the Marvel and Star Wars sides of the Disney coin: his Thor: Love And Thunder will be hitting theaters this summer.
Even while Kennedy seems to be set on bringing Star Wars to other corners of the galaxy far away from legacy characters, she did mention that “there’s always a future for Solo,” and adds that they are still talking with Donald Glover about reprising his role as young Lando Calrissian. Solo: A Star Wars Story induced the ire of a handful of Star Wars fans upon its release (despite it being the only sequel in the franchise to recapture the swashbuckling spirit of the 1977 original) and the suggestion that it may get a continuation—be it as a feature or a series—is sure to delight the more fun side of Star Wars.
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Moving away from the Skywalker Saga is great. “Might becoming to” needs work.
This place is really be coming an embarrassment.
Moving away from the Skywalker Saga is good.
Giving the Skywalker Saga a decent ending would be great.
(Could probably use a better beginning too.)
Our Flag Means Darth. I’ll show myself out.
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Star Wars: “There’s a lot of conversation around that.”
Just based on how long CGI tentpoles take to make, late 2023 seems unlikely given that Waititi would have a tough time even starting preproduction until after Thor is out. But if he rushes right into it, and preproduction is only 4-5 months, and then they start shooting in November, and rush the CGI… it could come out Christmas 2023.Or, if it’s a relatively CGI-light Star Wars movie, so that preproduction and CGI don’t take that long. Seems unlikely they’d be okay with that, especially if it’s supposed to be the start of a new franchise, but I think at this point it’d be interesting to have a DC-style approach where they let a bunch of different filmmakers make a bunch of different movies that are only loosely connected (or just not connected at all; it’s a big galaxy, you could have ten movies featuring ten completely unrelated sets of characters that each visit ten planets and have it be entirely plausible that none of them know each other!) and see what comes up.
“And you call me insane. You are privy to a great BECOMING, but you recognize nothing. To me, you are a slug in the sun. You are an ant in the afterbirth. It is your nature to do one thing correctly. Before me, you rightly tremble. But, fear is not what you owe me. YOU OWE ME AWE.”- the AV Club
I usually roll my eyes at the pedants who nitpick every typo on this site, but come on.
comeon*
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as much as i’m hot and cold on taika i gotta respect the cojones of tackling the first star wars back. also whatever keeps him away from akira is good, too.
Let’s move away from Skywalker, but cram in more Han Solo that nobody wants? Great. It’s not that hard to come up with a new Star Wars story. That is what this universe was made for. It just takes a decent storyteller. The Star Wars RPG has been letting amateurs do it for 30 years. It’ll be fine, as long as they remember that not every new character has to be a cousin/sibling/parent of someone we already know.
The family soap aspect of Star Wars is a feature, not a flaw…which is part of why the sequels didn’t work.
This is really going to hinge on how much freedom he’s given.