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A new Star Wars theatrical film confirmed - to be directed by Taika Waititi

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‘Academy Award Winner Taika Waititi to direct and co-write new Star Wars feature film for theatrical release; Oascar Nominee Krysty Wilson-Cairns to co-write Screenplay with Waititi’

https://www.starwars.com/news/taika-waititi-announce
 

"Academy Award winner Taika Waititi, who recently won Best Adapted Screenplay for Jojo Rabbit and directed the widely-acclaimed first season finale episode of The Mandalorian on Disney+, will direct and co-write a new Star Wars feature film for theatrical release.

Joining Waititi on the screenplay will be Academy Award nominee Krysty Wilson-Cairns (1917, Last Night in Soho), who received a BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film of the Year on the three-time Oscar-winning film, 1917.

A release date for both Waititi’s project has not yet been announced."
 

Also at https://twitter.com/starwars/status/1257339618099441664

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I’m looking forward to seeing what Taika Waititi will do with this project - and can bring to Star Wars overall.

Lucasfilm are too stingy on the details for their announced projects for my own liking 😉 Even a hint of what it may be about, or the timeline etc, would be most welcome…
 

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Well there’s no way this can be the next movie coming out in 2022. Thor: Love and Thunder is coming out earlier in the year, and a Marvel movie is no small undertaking.

Curious to know of who of the known writers/directors is doing the 2022 film. I’d hope we get an announcement this year, but maybe we won’t…it’s not like they’d have to start shooting till Fall 2021, so it might not be till next year we even find out who’s or what that movie is.

Anyhow, count me in as excited! I really enjoyed Jojo Rabbit. And he did an admirable job with the season 1 finale of The Mandalorian.

The only thing I could see people complaining about, is his tendency to focus more on comedy. I think he’s excellent at it, but I know many disliked those types of jokes in the sequel trilogy.

That said, I’ve been the person that’s been advocating for “genre movies” for Star Wars, like what was originally promised for the anthology series, and we saw Lucasfilm pull a 180 on that. So hell if someone wants to make a funnier Star Wars movie, go for it!

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Although it’s looking to be unlikely, I hope Rian Johnson is the one helming the 2022 film.

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oojason said:

I’m looking forward to seeing what Taika Waititi will do with this project - and can bring to Star Wars overall.

Lucasfilm are too stingy on the details for their announced projects for my own liking 😉 Even a hint of what it may be about, or the timeline etc, would be most welcome…
 

You got that right, it’s not 2015 anymore these non announcements don’t even generate any interest with me, pics or it didn’t happen!

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‘Taika Waititi talks Free Guy, Star Wars and Thor’:-

www.wired.co.uk/article/taika-waititi-free-guy
 

The part of the article about his Star Wars film…

‘Having finished filming on Thor: Love and Thunder, Waititi is now focusing more on his Star Wars film. “It’s still in the ‘EXT. SPACE’ stage,” he laughs, referring to the format scriptwriters use to set up a scene. “But we’ve got a story. I’m really excited by it because it feels very me.” Has it been a challenge to marry his irreverent tone with the operatically sincere Star Wars universe? “I tend to go down that little sincerity alleyway in my films,” he says. “I like to fool the viewer into thinking ‘ha it’s this’ and then them going, ‘Damn it, you made me feel something!’”’
 

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Taika Waititi Will Expand ‘Star Wars’ Away from Preexisting Characters, Forget Prequel Origin Stories at Indiewire
 

“Look, I think for the ‘Star Wars’ universe to expand, it has to expand,” Waititi told Total Film about his yet-to-be-titled movie. “I don’t think that I’m any use in the ‘Star Wars’ universe making a film where everyone’s like, ‘Oh great, well that’s the blueprints to the Millennium Falcon, ah that’s Chewbacca’s grandmother.'”

Waititi, who was tapped for a “Star Wars” installment with a December 2025 release date, added, “That all stands alone, that’s great, though I would like to take something new and create some new characters and just expand the world, otherwise it feels like it’s a very small story.”
 

New characters, new locations, not treading over previous ground again, and looking to expand the world of Star Wars? 100% yes please!

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A wise choice. It would indeed be refreshing for a new Star Wars film to ‘leave the comfort’ as it were. The franchise needs novelty again.

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I guess the higher-ups at Disney got scared at the prospect of doing something original.

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rocknroll41 said:

We should’ve gotten Rian’s trilogy. That man had vision and, regardless of what people think, proved he could deliver a Star Wars movie on time and under immense pressure.

According to Rian Johnson himself, his trilogy hasn’t been discarded.

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Now I want a Lars Von Trier or Harmony Korine-directed Star Wars movie. Just go for broke with deranged directors, as I’m sure it’d be more engaging than BOBF.

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fmalover said:

I guess the higher-ups at Disney got scared at the prospect of doing something original.

The SW universe can’t be expanded, only extended.

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