It’ll be a case of “Red Leader, Standing By” for a little while longer when it comes to firing up the X-Wings on Patty Jenkin’s Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, because those pesky scheduling conflicts have caused the Disney movie to delay its intended 2022 production start date.
Deadline has confirmed that Jenkins, who has been writing the script with Love and Monsters scribe Matthew Robinson, and prepping the movie for well over a year, is juggling her busy schedule, which includes Gal Gadot double-bill of Wonder Woman 3 and Paramount’s Cleopatra.
The report stresses that Rogue Squadron’s release date remains December 2023, that Jenkins is still committed to the anthology blockbuster and that she will ‘return to helm the feature for Disney’.
It all sounds like it could be tighter than trying to fire proton torpedoes into an exhaust port, but let us know what you think this means for Rogue Squadron by heading to our social channels @FlickeringMyth…
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron is still set for release on Christmas Day 2023.