There’s no final script for Taikia Waititi’s supposed Star Wars movie. He doesn’t know how it goes. Kathleen Kennedy said they were aiming for 2023 but there’s no way that could have possibly been honest.
Add this to the list of faceplants the Walt Disney Company has suffered in the last couple of weeks. And honestly, we actually can’t keep up with it all… and we’re an entertainment news website! And lest the start of this article make you believe we’re overselling some of these major issues, consider that we’re referring to a historically bad flop in Lightyear, Tim Allen criticizing Pixar, Baymax! took Disney farther into the culture war than Lightyear ever imagined, Shanghai Disney theme park opening to about a thousand guests, and an influx of rumors and sources all pointing towards an upcoming rain of pink slips newly renewed CEO Bob Chapek is reportedly ready to start handing out.
Wow.
So add this to all of that:
In an interview with the New York Times, actor, writer and director, Taika Waititi has been quoted to say that he isn’t even sure his Star Wars movie will be made… little alone hit the deadline that Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy had stated publicly!
Total Film: Star Wars Celebration has led to some very exciting news, but I would say there was a curious lack of talk about the movies. There were reports that the next movie will now be Taika Waititi’s Star Wars film. Is that correct?
Kathleen Kennedy: That’s correct.
Is that aiming for 2023?
Yeah. Well, not 2023, but late 2023.
The December 2023 release date?
We haven’t locked anything in.
The future of the movies is still in movement?
Of course, they’ve been in movement all along. As we leave the saga, we have all this great, exciting work happening on the television side that informs so much about where we’re going. We want to be very intentional about that. And we have great talent that we’re working with – people who care so deeply about what the next iteration of Star Wars is and about getting people back into movie theatres, so we can really come out with a bang. That’s important to us.
Now, what we’re finding out is the reality is so far divorced from what Kathleen Kennedy had to say, we’re willing to accept that she’s just outright fabricating nonsense. Seriously. According to Taika Waititi himself, he hasn’t written a script, he doesn’t know what the movie would be about, it’s not approved by Lucasfilm, and there seems to be so little prepared for this movie that it might as well not even have the first page devoted to its real development. One of these two people can’t be telling the truth. Either there is no movement or there is.
From the new interview out of the New York Times:
“I’m trying to write the ‘Star Wars’ idea at the moment,” he said. “I’ve got to see how that goes, because once I submit it, that might determine when it gets made or if it gets made, even.”
— Taikia Waititi to Dave Itzkoff, New York Times
You can completely wipe out whatever Kathleen Kennedy has said about 2023. If there’s no script for this movie at this point, this is late 2024 at the earliest. If Lucasfilm is going to struggle to make anything theatrical, fine… but enough of lying. This is just silly.
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