On the eve of the return of Star Wars to the big-screen with the playing-it-safe spin-off Mandalorian & Grogu, Damon Lindelof has opened up about being fired from his own Star Wars project.
The Lost and Watchmen writer was speaking on the House of R podcast when the subject turned to his proposed adventure in a galaxy far, far away, one of many that has ended up in the Lucasfilm trash-compactor.
Lindelof said that he was hired when he pitched what he felt a Star Wars movie should be “and then two years later I was fired”.
He continued to say “What we were attempting to do was to have this conversation in the movie, which is to say, there is a force of nostalgia and there is a force of revision, and they are at odds with one another. And let’s do the Protestant Reformation inside Star Wars. And it didn’t work.”
Lindelof claimed that Lucasfilm “liked the premise”, but he felt it “didn’t feel necessarily that risky”, adding “The writing was really hard, it was slow…the tone, getting it right, where it was inside of the canon, what its relationship was with to Episode IX, is it starting a new trilogy?”
He had written an initial draft for the film alongside Justin Britt-Gibson (Lanterns), with Ms. Marvel’s Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy set to direct. Production was scheduled to begin in February 2024, with a release date of December 19th, 2025.
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