Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy
has revealed some intriguing particulars about one of many many upcoming Star Wars films that at the moment are in improvement. This one, helmed by Deadpool and Wolverine director Shawn Levy and starring Academy Award nominee and main man Ryan Gosling, will seemingly divert from a whole lot of the current Star Wars tasks, significantly the Disney sequel trilogy.
How will it divert, you ask? Properly, it won’t depend on nostalgia. In contrast to the likes of The Power Awakens and its follow-up, Levy’s film will act as a standalone story set “5 – 6 years” after The Rise of Skywalker. Not solely that, it’ll concentrate on just about “new characters.” Although there will probably be area to carry again some newer faces from the sequel saga.
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“We’re completely rolling quick and furiously.”
“That’s additionally sooner or later. It’s all submit [the first] 9. Shawn’s is a standalone Star Wars story that’ll happen submit 9, perhaps 5 – 6 years out. And Mandalorian actually stands by itself as a result of there, we’re coping with a complete different period within the New Republic. We have now different improvement happening in that area as effectively. In order that’s the area that we’re just about centered on proper in the intervening time, as a result of clearly with Mandalorian we now have a fairly good sense of the place that’s going. And with this, it’s all just about new characters. We could carry a few of the characters again from the sequel saga, however just about new characters.”
Has ‘Star Wars’ Grow to be Too Reliant on Nostalgia?
Whereas bringing again the likes of Harrison Ford as Han Solo, Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, and Carrie Fisher as Leia was a big a part of what had audiences so excited concerning the Disney sequel trilogy, many felt that, by the point The Rise of Skywalker rolled round (“Someway, Palpatine returned…”) the saga had been crushed below the burden of nostalgia.
Shawn Levy’s Star Wars film avoiding this pitfall is definitely fascinating, significantly when a whole lot of the filmmaker’s earlier tasks both lean into nostalgia. Whether or not that be the Amblin-esque ‘80s feeling of Stranger Issues and The Adam Mission, or the return of beloved characters in Deadpool and Wolverine, it’s refreshing to listen to that Star Wars will transfer away from sentimental affection for issues passed by and as an alternative carve out a brand new path. However, with the potential addition of sequel characters, whose return will seemingly really feel nostalgic by the point the film comes out, and being a bunch of stone-cold cynics, we’ll imagine it after we see it.
One thing we must always by no means have believed have been the rumors that Kathleen Kennedy is planning to retire from Lucasfilm by the top of the yr. The president and producer has now set the report straight, declaring, “The reality is, and I wish to simply say loud and clear, I’m not retiring. I’ll by no means retire from films. I’ll die making films. That’s the very first thing that’s essential to say. I’m not retiring.”
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