James Mangold’s First Jedi Movie: Still Happening
The next film announced at Celebration is actually reviving an old idea: Benioff and Weiss’ films were rumored to have been about the origins of the Jedi Order, and now James Mangold (who had previously been linked to a cancelled Star Wars project already, a Boba Fett movie) will tackle the story of the very first Jedi.
“For me, it’s about, I want to be part of the saga, but I also don’t want to be holding so much lore in the air that you can hardly tell a story,” Mangold told io9 earlier this year. “And what I really wanted to do, what I told [Kathleen Kennedy] was just can we make a kind of the Ten Commandments of the Force, you know? A kind of origin story of how the Force came to be known, understood, wielded, and harnessed.”
