{"id":91878,"date":"2023-04-06T00:40:19","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T00:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/06\/donald-glover-in-talks-to-return-as-lando-calrissian-in-new-star-wars-series\/"},"modified":"2023-04-06T00:40:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T00:40:19","slug":"donald-glover-in-talks-to-return-as-lando-calrissian-in-new-star-wars-sequence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/06\/donald-glover-in-talks-to-return-as-lando-calrissian-in-new-star-wars-sequence\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Glover &#8220;in talks&#8221; to return as Lando Calrissian in new &#8216;Star Wars&#8217; sequence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/donald-glover\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Glover<\/a> has confirmed that Lucasfilm is discussing the potential for a Lando Calrissian sequence for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/brands\/disney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Disney+<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The potential <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/tag\/star-wars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Star Wars<\/em><\/a> sequence was first introduced again in 2020, however additional developments have but to emerge.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-content-read-more\">\n<li><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/blogs\/nme-blogs\/star-wars-solo-flop-why-2332824\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Star Wars: right here\u2019s why\u00a0<em>Solo<\/em>\u00a0flopped<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Glover is ready to reprise the function of the titular character, having beforehand portrayed him in 2018\u2019s <em>Solo: A Star Wars story<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>While the destiny of the sequence continues to be unsure, Glover lately confirmed in an interview that Lucasfilm is unquestionably involved in transferring forward with the mission.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IXb9J187Wmo&amp;ab_channel=GQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>GQ<\/em><\/a>, he mentioned: \u201cLando is definitely somebody I\u2019d like to hang out with. I mean we\u2019re talking about it. That\u2019s as much as I can say, you know, without [Lucasfilm president] Kathleen Kennedy hunting me down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_3378966\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3378966\" style=\"width: 2000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3378966\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/donald-glover-childish-gambino-golden-globes.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Glover\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/donald-glover-childish-gambino-golden-globes.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/donald-glover-childish-gambino-golden-globes-400x254.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/donald-glover-childish-gambino-golden-globes-800x508.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/donald-glover-childish-gambino-golden-globes-696x442.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/donald-glover-childish-gambino-golden-globes-1392x884.jpg 1392w, https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/donald-glover-childish-gambino-golden-globes-1068x678.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3378966\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donald Glover is ready to reprise his function as Lando Calrissian CREDIT: Matt Winkelmeyer\/FilmMagic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Glover couldn\u2019t outright reveal if the present was formally in improvement, however he did specific a need to reprise the function ought to the mission be dealt with rigorously.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would love to play Lando again. It\u2019s a fun time to be him,\u201d Glover mentioned. \u201cIt just needs to be the right way to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued: \u201cI\u2019m not interested in doing anything that\u2019s just gonna be a waste of my time or just a paycheck. I\u2019d much rather spend time with people that l enjoy. So it just has to be the right thing, which I think it could be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lucasfilm and Disney haven\u2019t offered an replace on the sequence, merely titled Lando, since its announcement in December 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe galaxy\u2019s favourite scoundrel, Lando Calrissian, will return in Lando, a brand-new event series for Disney+. Justin Simien is in the early stages of developing the project,\u201d the corporate mentioned in a press release on the time.<\/p>\n<p>At Star Wars Celebration in 2022, Lucasfilm president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/tv\/donald-glover-still-in-the-picture-to-star-in-lando-calrissian-star-wars-series-3236717\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kathleen Kennedy confirmed that Glover was nonetheless in line to play Lando<\/a>, regardless of claiming she wouldn\u2019t be afraid to recast the function.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('consent', 'revoke');\n  fbq('init', '2300206660218433');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  fbq('init', '370979561341328');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Donald Glover has confirmed that Lucasfilm is discussing the potential for a Lando Calrissian sequence for Disney+. The potential Star Wars sequence was first introduced again in 2020, however additional developments have but to emerge. READ MORE:\u00a0Star Wars: right here\u2019s why\u00a0Solo\u00a0flopped Glover is ready to reprise the function of the titular character, having beforehand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-91878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}