In a move you could only pull off in an X-Wing, it is being reported that Lucasfilm and Disney are about to perform a mid-air 180 on Patty Jenkins Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, with the Wonder Woman helmer claiming she has signed a new deal to write and direct the standalone Star Wars movie.
Jenkins was speaking on the TCM/Max podcast, Talking Pictures when she revealed that she had signed an agreement to return to the cockpit for Rogue Squadron.
“So, when I left Star Wars to do Wonder Woman 3 , I thought maybe I’ll come back to Star Wars after Wonder Woman 3. So we did a deal for that to happen, started a deal, but I thought I was doing Wonder Woman. When that went away, Lucasfilm and I were like, oh, we gotta finish this deal. We finished the deal right as the strike was happening. So I now owe a draft of Star Wars and so we will see what happens there. You know, like, who knows?
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“It’s hard, they have a hard job in front of them of what’s the first movie they’re gonna do. They have other directors who have been working, but I am now, you know, I’m back on doing Rogue Squadron and we’ll see what happens. We need to develop, you know, get it to where we’re both super happy with it.”
Originally announced to much fanfare at the 2020 Disney Investor Day, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron has had a bumpy pre-production ride, with ‘indefinite delays’ and ‘creative differences’ leading to the film being removed from the Disney release schedule altogether, before it was announced in early 2023 that it had been completely scrapped.
It sounds like Rogue Squadron is still a long way off, but it’s some positive news for the project, and Patty Jenkins was clearly passionate about making a Star Wars movie, as you can see from the official 2020 teaser below, but the final film will have to go some to match the on-again, off-again drama of its journey to the screen.
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Originally published March 14, 2024. Updated March 15, 2024.
