After years of exile on planet Disney+, Lucasfilm’s plan to marshal “Star Wars” again to the massive display screen is about to take off. Just a couple of hours after “The Mandalorian & Grogu” landed a summer time 2026 launch date from Disney, one other “Star Wars” movie from director James Mangold is beginning to take form. And it’s re-enlisting too. Beau Willimon, one in every of Tony Gilroy’s writers on the “Rogue One” prequel collection “Andor,” has been employed to co-write Mangold’s “Star Wars” film, tentatively generally known as “Dawn Of The Jedi” (through THR).
A working title for now, “Dawn Of The Jedi,” was introduced on the Star Wars Celebration in 2023 together with two different Lucasfilm films, one from filmmaker and Lucasfilm Chief Creator Office Dave Filoni, the opposite from director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, which options Daisy Ridley’s Rey Skywalker.
Mangold’s movie is anticipated to hint the origins of the Force and shall be set 25,000 years earlier than any of the timelines and narratives seen in any of the earlier films or exhibits, making it the earliest “Star Wars” movie ever.
Willimon, a playwright and screenwriter, created Netflix’s political drama “House Of Cards” and was one of many key writers on Gilroy’s critically acclaimed “Andor” collection starring Diego Luna as Cassian Andor. Willimon is credited with writing a number of the vital turning level episodes on “Andor,” together with “Narkina 5,” “Nobody’s Listening,” and the fan-favorite jail break episode, “One Way Out,” which additionally earned him an Emmy writing nomination. Before that, he wrote George Clooney’s political drama, “The Ides Of March,” starring Clooney and Ryan Gosling.
“When I first started talking to Kathy [Kennedy] about doing one of these pictures, what occurred to me was thinking about what kind of genre of movie within Star Wars I wanted to do,” Mangold stated throughout Celebration final 12 months. “And I thought about a biblical epic, like a Ten Commandments, about the dawning of the Force. Where did the Force come from, when did we discover it, when did we learn how to use it?”
No launch date has been set for “Dawn Of The Jedi,” however it’s anticipated that Mangold will give attention to it subsequent after finishing his upcoming Bob Dylan film, “A Complete Unknown,” starring Timothée Chalamet.
Lucasfilm’s subsequent “Star Wars” movie, the aforementioned ‘Mandalorian & Grogu’ is slated for May 22, 2026. While the corporate has one other launch date penciled in for December 18, 2026, anticipated to be saved for Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s “New Jedi Order” (one other working title), it’s unclear if that movie shall be able to shoot in time for subsequent 12 months.
Mangold works fairly quick, however given his workload and the time frames forward of him—he simply began capturing the Dylan movie, so it’s not anticipated to be completed till someday subsequent 12 months—the earliest we see his ‘Jedi’ film will possible be 2027.