Wish they’d just adapt the Dawn of the Jedi novel/comics from the EU. I really want to see Disney Star Wars attempt a genuine and faithful EU adaptation to live action, and the Old Republic/Dawn era is a perfect place to experiment with this.
I just feel like they’re never going to do that in order to maintain the element of surprise. Otherwise the fans would already know what was going go happen.
That’s the whole reason they gave for rebooting the EU in the first place, to “maintain the element of surprise for the audience.” Of course, they could have still set the sequel trilogy within the existing EU if they’d really wanted to, but even Lucas doesn’t seem to have been planning on that before he decided to step away for good.
Anyway, the latest rumor is that Mangold plans on tackling this movie next, possibly as early as next year, after his Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown” comes out in December.