Damon Lindelof Leaves Star Wars Movie After Delivering Script

Late final evening, Above the Line reported that screenwriters Damon Lindelof (Watchmen, The Leftovers) and Justin Britt-Gibson are now not connected to the Star Wars universe. They had been initially tied to an untitled Star Wars venture alongside Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. Obaid-Chinoy is an Emmy and Oscar successful documentarian who just lately gained extra fiction credit when she directed two episodes of Ms. Marvel.

This information comes virtually instantly after Lindelof’s musings at SXSW the place he mentioned to Slashfilm, “the diploma of problem is extraordinarily, extraordinarily, extraordinarily excessive” on the subject of creating a movie for Star Wars. Lindelof went on to say that “If it will possibly’t be nice, it shouldn’t exist… I feel it’s doable that typically whenever you maintain one thing in such excessive reverence and esteem, you begin to get within the kitchen and also you simply go, ‘Possibly I shouldn’t be cooking. Possibly I ought to simply be consuming.’ We’ll simply go away it at that time.”

Deadline had beforehand reported that Lindelof was one of many causes that Lucasfilm introduced a director onto the venture early. Sources say that each events wished the director’s imaginative and prescient to be mirrored within the script from early growth. Above the Line experiences that Lindelof and Britt-Gibson completed a draft of the script and existed the image only some days later. Manufacturing isn’t meant to begin till early 2024, and the discharge date is slated for Dec 19, 2025.

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