Patty Jenkins' Star Wars: Rogue Squadron Pulled From Disney's Schedule
Patty Jenkins' Star Wars: Rogue Squadron seems to be grounded for good following Disney's recent schedule update. Star Wars has had an up-and-down tenure ever since Disney got ahold of it, producing a shotgun blast of movies after the acquisition that almost always had a tumultuous time moving from page to screen.
Lucasfilm won fans back to theStar Wars franchise in a big way after the disappointment they felt over the prequels with 2015's The Force Awakens. After that, there was a new Star Wars movie each year until 2019’s less-than-popular The Rise of the Skywalker, and nothing since.
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Now it looks like another Star Wars movie has hit a bad bump with Jenkins' Star Wars: Rogue Squadron having its wings clipped before the dogfighting epic could launch in the first place. The movie was set for a December 22nd, 2023, release date. Jenkins was announced as being attached to the epic dogfighting movie set in the Star Wars universe as far back as 2020, with no forward momentum on that film—or any film in the franchise—since the 2019 release of The Rise of the Skywalker, which saw a boatload of cash pour in but was panned by critics and fans alike as a dismal end to a rocky sequel trilogy. It even left certain fans clamoring for George Lucas—a man they hated for the prequels—to return to try to right the ship. Since then, Jenkins has busied herself with Wonder Woman 3, a take on Cleopatra, and now Disney has announced that her Star Wars project is no longer listed on its slate of upcoming releases.
Lucasfilm having troubles with its film side of the Star Wars universe is one thing, but something like Star Wars: Rogue Squadron presents its own
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