Star Wars' New Movie Rumors Are Perfect - If Lucasfilm Allows It
A Damon Lindelof Star Wars movie sounds good to us, but does Lucasfilm's recent history create an imbalance in the Force? The Star Wars franchise has been going great guns on Disney+, with The Mandalorian, Obi-Wan Kenobi and (to a lesser extent) The Book of Boba Fett all expanding George Lucas' mythology in bold and interesting ways. A creative team centered around Jon Favreau, Dave Filoni and Deborah Chow (plus frequent collaborators Robert Rodriguez and Bryce Dallas Howard) has given Star Wars much needed direction on the small screen. At the movies, however, Star Wars' future is murkier than Luke Skywalker's green milk.
Disney's run started well enough with The Force Awakens in 2015 and Rogue One the following year, but quickly encountered turbulence with Rian Johnson's divisive The Last Jedi, the behind-the-scenes tribulations of Solo, and a messy conclusion in The Rise of Skywalker, leaving the Star Wars movie franchise at its lowest ebb since 2002 (back when everyone hated Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones). Although Disney and Lucasfilm do, by all accounts, wish to bring Star Wars back to movie prominence, Patty Jenkins' Rogue Squadron is the only confirmed project in the pipeline… and even that's starting to look a little shaky.
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Latest reports suggest Lucasfilm is tapping Damon Lindelof for a Star Wars movie project. There's no word on whether this'll be Star Wars 10 or some standalone spinoff, nor whether Lindelof would be writing and producing or just dumping a script on Kathleen Kennedy's desk and wishing her the best. Regardless, Damon Lindelof's attachment to a Star Wars project is bound to invite strong reactions.
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