The Stranger Things creative and Free Guy director Shawn Levy is taking the reins of yet another Star Wars project for Lucasfilm.
Itās that time again.
It has been announced via
Deadline that yet another
Star Wars film is in development, this one under the stewardship of Shawn Levy.
Levy has been involved with some of the industryās biggest productions of the last few years, having produced
Stranger Things (and helmed a few episodes too) since the very beginning, not to mention directing splashy features such as
Free Guy and Netflixās
The Adam Project. Oh, and thereās the small matter of him helming the third
Deadpool movie that has been grabbing all of the headlines of late, since it was announced that Hugh Jackman would be returning to reprise the role of Wolverine once more.
Little is known about Levyās
Star Wars project and no writer is yet attached. Reportedly, work on this one wonāt even begin until
Deadpool 3 is done so donāt expect to see this one for a good few years, if at all.
Lucasfilm has developed an unfortunate habit over the last few years of prematurely announcing
Star Wars movie projects that either sit in suspended animation or simply donāt come to pass. As such, Levyās project joins those supposedly being led by Patty Jenkins, Kevin Feige, Taika Waititi and Rian Johnson, as well as the Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy/Damon Lindelof feature weāve been hearing a bit about lately. Of all of those projects though, only the latter seems to have any real sense of traction.
At best, you can charitably describe most of the plans above as ālong-gestatingā and fans of A Galaxy Far, Far Away have become depressingly used to reports of a new film surfacing, only for them to fritter away to nothing. Thatās certainly what seems to have happened to the
Star Wars project that JD Dillard, the director of the upcoming dogfight movie,
Devotion was working on.
Dillardās father was a pilot and it seems that his interest in aviation movies extended beyond the upcoming
Devotion, with the director hinting to
The Wrap that his pitched
Star Wars project may have been based around the Empireās TIE Fighter pilots. “My dad being an aviator, we had a bunch of flight simulatorsā, he explained. I’m playing [
Tie Fighter] for months. And my dad’s flying it with me. And I’m like, man, this game is just so cool. And he’s like, well, you know, this game comes from a series of movies ā¦ that is where I watched
Star Wars for the first time and realised the full scope of what it meant to world build because I’d been playing this pseudo-16-bit gameā.
Whilst thatās far from a confirmation of what could have been, you can easily envisage a world where Dillardās potential TIE Fighter project could have released as a companion piece to complement Patty Jenkinsā planned
Rogue Squadron film, perhaps on Disney+ as a series. Either way, the filmmaker has confirmed that the project is “unfortunately no longer a thing… it was not for lack of trying”.
We havenāt seen a new
Star Wars film now since 2019ās
The Rise Of Skywalker and there are no immediate film projects on Lucasfilmās release schedule. Until something concrete finally goes into production,
Star Wars fans will continue to content themselves with some of the smaller screen Disney+ fare such as the excellent
Andor which is earning good reviews as its first series draws to an end.
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