Two Highly Anticipated Star Wars Projects Won't Be Happening Any Time Soon
Two planned Star Wars projects from Lucasfilm with Kevin Feige and Patty Jenkins might no longer go forward at all. This news comes in the wake of preliminary talk about a new project being added from another similarly high-profile filmmaker.
Star Wars is the most popular science fiction franchise in history, almost single-handedly establishing the space opera sci-fi genre as legitimate at a time when it had been considered a bit of an insult within the sci-fi community to refer to any work as such. Since the success of the original and prequel trilogies and acquisition by Disney, the Star Wars franchise has re-expanded to include a new sequel film trilogy, one-off stories like Rogue One, and several smaller projects for the streaming service Disney Plus. After the success ofThe Mandalorian, the company went on to announce many more projects.
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However, it seems some of these projects were announced prematurely, a habit that has already led to Disney cautioning Lucasfilm against announcing Star Wars projects early. Variety revealed that insiders at the company had disclosed that two projects that were in the works are now shelved with little chance of resurgence. The two in question are the planned Rogue Squadron film, which was to be helmed by Wonder Woman director Jenkins, and an unnamed project from Marvel Studios boss Feige.
Lucasfilm has joined a larger industry trend, with situations like Kathleen Kenedy's indefinite postponement of Rian Johnson's plannedStar Wars trilogybecoming all too common. As if not yet aware of the problem, it’s come out recently that filmmaker Taika Waititi is working on a Star Wars project that he will direct and is in talks to star in, with no
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