Whereas it by no means appeared to maneuver past its preliminary idea, director Patty Jenkins says her Star Wars movie about X-wing pilots, Rogue Squadron, shouldn’t be useless.
In an look on TCM’s Speaking Photos podcast, Jenkins advised host Ben Mankiewicz she was nonetheless engaged on a script for Rogue Squadron. The movie was beforehand presumed to be canceled, together with a number of different announced-but-unshot Star Wars movies of current years.
In Jenkins’ case, she left the movie to develop a 3rd Marvel Lady movie — however then that mission wound up falling aside.
“After I left Star Wars to do Marvel Lady 3, and I began engaged on that, we talked about, ‘Properly, perhaps I’ll come again to Star Wars after Marvel Lady 3,’ so we began a deal for that to occur.”
“When Marvel Lady 3 then went away, Lucasfilm and I have been like ‘Oh, we’ve obtained to complete this deal.’ We completed the deal proper because the strike was starting, so I now owe a draft of Star Wars.”
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Jenkins’ pitch for the film was basically High Gun set on the earth of Star Wars. Rogue Squadron was introduced by Lucasfilm and Disney in December of 2020. They have been assured sufficient within the mission at the moment to even produce a teaser hyping the film.
Lucasfilm mentioned Rogue Squadron would “introduce a brand new era of starfighter pilots as they earn their wings and danger their lives in a boundary-pushing, high-speed thrill-ride, and transfer the saga into the longer term period of the galaxy.” However not lengthy after the announcement of the movie, Lucasfilm began asserting delays; the film was initially anticipated to open in theaters in 2023. Now … who is aware of?
You possibly can hearken to Jenkins’ full look on Speaking Photos beneath.
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