is going from to House of Jedis. The playwright and screenwriter has been tapped to work the script for , Lucasfilm’s feature that is to be directed by . Willimon is joining Mangold to write the script for the project that will trace the origins of the Force and be set 25,000 years before any of the timelines and stories told by the movies and shows so far. , which is a working title, was first unveiled almost exactly one year ago, at the last
Star Wars Celebration, held in
London in April 2023. “When I first started talking to Kathy [Kennedy] about doing one of these pictures, what occurred to me was thinking about what kind of genre of movie within I wanted to do,” Mangold said at the time. “And I thought about a Biblical epic, like a , about the dawning of the Force. Where did the Force come from, when did we discover it, when did we learn how to use it?” The project, like most Star Wars initiatives, had been under a Sith shroud of secrecy ever since. The feature has no release date, but Mangold is expected to turn his attention to after he wraps , his Bob Dylan biopic that stars Timothée Chalamet and is being made by
Disney arm Searchlight Pictures. The next Star Wars movie is slated to be , which on Friday release date. is not Willimon’s first time in hyperspace. The scribe worked on season one of , the acclaimed and Emmy-nominated Star Wars series focused on the character played by Diego Luna. Willimon wrote three episodes, including the
prison breakout installment titled “One Way Out.” The episode earned Willimon an Emmy nomination for outstanding writing for a drama series and featured the heartbreaking line “I can’t swim,” uttered by Andy Serkis. The writer is known for his dramatic prowess and his work features political undertones and deals with themes of power. was set in the halls of
Washington D.C. and was one of the most acclaimed series of the mid-2010s, helping put
Netflix on the map as a destination for original television. He also co-wrote the George Clooney-Ryan Gosling political thriller and created Hulu’s space drama . He is repped by WME and Schreck Rose. THR Newsletters Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day More from The
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