Speaking with Slashfilm about the Star Wars spinoff movies – which include the now-filming Rogue One, a Han Solo prequel and a third, yet-to-be-revealed idea – Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy described what those movies might have in common with Marvel’s, saying that the “standalone films can be a wide variety of genres inside the Star Wars universe”. I think that’s so far just coincidence.
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With Disney planning a large number of films in the franchise over the next decade, the possibility of a female director seems likely to happen.
After the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens in just eight short days, fans won’t have to wait too long to go back to this beloved galaxy far, far away.
Fair enough. Kennedy also said that Lucasfilm is looking for specific filmmakers for the Star Wars Story movies to bring in unique sensibilities to their projects. There were rumours of Netflix making a Star Wars show at one point… “[The standalone movies] are not being created to necessarily build new franchises” [and will] “very definitely have a beginning, middle, and end”.
We’re even promised some surprising and little-known facts, although some of the people featured in How Star Wars Changed the World (10pm), may argue that there’s nothing they don’t know about the movies. She said that “the stories can fall pretty much anywhere on the timeline”.
What exactly she might mean about “developing those things further” is obviously open for debate, and given EA – who still has the rights to develop Star Wars games – let the trademark for Star Wars 1313 lapse two years ago it may forever remain buried in the lower levels of Coruscant, never to be seen again. Not prequels to other things, with lots of in-jokes and cameos.
The first in this series will be Gareth Edwards’ Rogue One: A Star Wars Story while Phil Lord and Christopher Miller will direct a young Han Solo project.
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The 7:42 supercut of Darth Vader scenes from the original trilogy (somewhat surprised they didn’t get the “Nooo” scene from Episode III in) has Trump soundbites dubbed over Vader’s heavy breathing, so not that big of a leap I guess.
