Hardly a surprise. I’m all for it if they come up with a good script and Ewan is on board.
If they go with him that’d be a pretty good indicator we won’t be getting Star Wars Babies - at least not for the entire duration of the film, I guess?
I wouldn’t worry about the script - it’s guaranteed to be a complete mess, and even that won’t matter if the studio decides to step in during post-production and re-shoot half of the thing anyway. Par for the course for all those studio tentpoles.
I’d say it’s more important they get someone who cares about the material, and can actually wrangle this thing into existence. Daldry could perhaps manage the latter, but I don’t see him as the former. And there’s also the part where he makes movies that give a new definition to the term ‘bland.’
Rogue One ended up being a mess, but at the end of the day its strongest aspect was Edwards’ direction, and what came through of his approach.