Star Wars: the new film, by Taika Waititi, will move away from known characters

Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy had already announced this last month Star Wars he would need to create “a whole new saga” to return to the big screen, and not just rely on narrative threads from the past, he told the magazine. Total movie.

This is exactly what the director Taika Waititi confirmed what he wants to do with his neighbor Star Warswhich will be the first film in the series since the end of the Skywalker saga the rise of Skywalker.

Waititi said recently Total movie that he is not interested in making a film with pre-existing characters and plots or telling origin stories in a prequel style. Director of Thor: Love and thunder aims to “create some new characters” and “expand the world” of Star Wars with your new project

The director assured that he’s still working on the script, since he wants to make sure the story feels like another installment of the franchise, true to what audiences already know, but with entirely new characters.

“I think for the universe of Star Wars to expand, it must really expand. I don’t think it will add anything if I go into the universe and make a movie that when everyone sees it says: ‘Oh dude, look, those are the plans for the Millennium Falcon, oh, and that’s Chewbacca’s grandmother.‘”.

After giving that example, he added: “It’s all great, but I would like to propose something new and develop new characters, just expand the world, otherwise I think it would be a very small and limited story.”

New plans

For his part, he commented on the new plans: “They have been on the move all the time. When we leave the saga, we have all this fantastic and exciting work. We want to be very sure. And we have some great talents we’re working with – people who care deeply about what’s next Star Wars“.

The intention, both for the producer and for the director and his team, is also to revive interest in the return to the cinema in a large part of the public, who withdrew after the pandemic. “That way, with new stories, we want to bring people back to theaters, so we can really move forward. This is important to us,” Kennedy said.

Waititi is developing Star Wars alongside co-writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns, who earned an Oscar nomination for writing the one-take war thriller,1917by Sam Mendes.

While the franchise has moved away from movies and television over the past couple of years, most recently with the premiere of the series Obi-Wan KenobiOn Disney +, Kennedy pointed out that the big screen remains a priority for the franchise.

That’s why all the trust is placed in Taika Waititi, who played a small role in The Mandalorian and even directed one of his own episodes.

Actor and director, Waititi is a trusted man for Disney. after rolling Thor: Ragnaroknow looking forward to the premiere of Thor: Love and thunder, for next July 7 in Argentina.

Director of Jojo Rabbit (for which he received the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay), among others, he has long been commissioned to write and direct a new Star Warswhich could be released in late 2023.

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