![]() ![]() ![]() It feels as if we are in a place as fans that’s a million parsecs away from Rise of Skywalker: this is an era in which Lucasfilm’s modus operandi seems to be to find great creatives who genuinely love Star Wars and let them loose in the galactic sandpit. It’s slightly worrying that the Mando dream team of Favreau and Filoni don’t seem to be heavily involved in this one at all.Īnd yet everything is going so swimmingly for Star Wars that it’s impossible not to be optimistic. Perhaps she will spend most of the movie being moaned at by the force ghosts of Luke, Anakin, Obi-Wan and Kylo Ren, all of whom are angrily decrying the wasted potential of the greatest space opera of all time reduced to a mess of bad planning and warring directors. It’s hard to see how the newly announced Star Wars film can do that with Rey’s presence reminding us at every moment that they really did try to bring back the Emperor as a sort of Sith zombie. It will certainly be intriguing to see if Rey has learned anything from the events of the past as she forges the Jedi order anew – might these new lightsaber-wielding heroes be freed from the rigid priestly duties that ultimately caused Anakin to turn to the dark side? Is it wise to teach your young padawan that controlling the minds of weaker creatures is the quickest and easiest way to get out of any difficult situation? Everything is going so swimmingly for Star Wars that it’s impossible not to be optimisticīut it’s even more vital that Obaid-Chinoy avoids the sequel trilogy’s unwieldy cribbing from the past, and finds new stories to inspire a fresh generation of fans. While Ridley herself did nothing wrong in any of her three films, The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker, it doesn’t exactly feel as if she deserves Star Wars legend status either. Rise of Skywalker was such an ill-conceived and creatively pathetic entry that many Star Wars fans have done our best to wipe it from the memory banks. On the rocks … John Boyega in a scene from the Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019). While it’s unlikely that anyone could mess up Star Wars quite so appallingly as JJ Abrams did with that execrable movie, this feels a bit like Lucasfilm’s decision to bring back the prequels’ much-maligned Hayden Christensen as Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader in the middling recent Obi-Wan Kenobi show. Centred on the building of a new Jedi Order and the powers that rise up to tear it down, a decade after the events of Rise of Skywalker, it will see the return of Daisy Ridley’s Rey from the sequel trilogy. The final new movie, which will be overseen by Ms Marvel’s Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, might just end up being the most divisive. So it bodes well that Mangold will be working in a period set well before the rise of the Galactic Empire, during an era that remains shrouded in mystery. ![]() So far the post-Lucas era has been characterised by incisive, glorious work carried out whenever new creators have had very little to go on (The Mandalorian), and at the other end of the spectrum, clumsy cannibalisation of past glories (The Rise of Skywalker and the worst bits of The Force Awakens and The Book of Boba Fett). Will we finally get to learn more about George Lucas’s legendary Whills, the early Force wielders rumoured to hold the secret to becoming a Force Ghost? Or will Disney take Star Wars mythos in a completely new direction now that Lucas is no longer in charge? It bodes well that James Mangold will be working in a period that remains shrouded in mysteryĮither way, this feels like a brave decision by Lucasfilm, largely because such an early period in Star Wars “history” remains mostly unwritten. Its central protagonist will be a Jedi who learns to use their powers to battle oppression in an era of chaos. The second new film, it was revealed, will see James Mangold overseeing a tale set in the earliest days of the Force. ![]() Baby Yoda and Mando on the big screen? It had to happen, and now it will. And Celebration confirmed that Star Wars stalwart Dave Filoni will oversee a new movie that is expected to act as a climactic cinematic event for shows such as The Mandalorian and Ahsoka. We’ve already seen with the stupendous Mandalorian and the mercurial The Book of Boba Fett that there’s plenty of fertile ground in the period just after the original trilogy took place, as the last vestiges of the fallen Empire battle the forces of the New Republic. Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy revealed at London’s ExCel that the Disney-owned studio now envisages Star Wars as a saga that takes place across vast stretches of time, from the very early days of the Jedi, to a future beyond Rise of Skywalker. ![]()
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