Beau Willimon to co-write Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi

Property of Playing cards’ Beau Willimon has been tapped to co-publish Star Wars: Daybreak of the Jedi along with James Mangold.

THR critiques that Beau Willimon is established to co-compose the script for James Mangold’s Star Wars: Daybreak of the Jedi.

Willimon is a playwright and screenwriter greatest recognised for buying House of Playing cards for Netflix, however he additionally has some Star Wars encounter as he labored on the preliminary time of Andor, producing 3 episodes of the critically acclaimed sequence. He'll co-generate the script for Daybreak of the Jedi (which is only a working title) alongside Mangold, who will even speedy.

We don’t know all that so much in regards to the mission, solely that it'll simply take location 25,000 years upfront of the Skywalker Saga and check out the to begin with Jedi and the invention of the Stress. “It was one thing that Jim [Mangold] immediately sparked to, and I assume it’s a severely good praise to what we’re executing with going into the foreseeable future with Rey, after which figuring out a bit extra of the place by this all got here from,” Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy said. “Just because it is going to be on the coronary heart of producing the brand new Jedi Purchase, so to get an actual notion of the place by that will have began with the daybreak of the Jedi might be pretty cool.“

Mangold has mentioned that this new endeavor will select inspiration from Fifties biblical epics. “I instructed Kathy [Kennedy, head of Lucasfilm] I wanted to make a sort of Bible film,” Mangold said, “a type of 10 Commandments of Star Wars–type of a Cecil B DeMille film in regards to the arrival of the Drive, and which is what I’ve been pecking absent at between push capabilities. Which is the idea.“

As James Mangold is now capturing his Bob Dylan biopic starring Timothée Chalamet, it’s not recognized when Daybreak of the Jedi will begin off taking pictures, however it received’t be the primary new Star Wars movie in theaters. That honour will probably be reserved for The Mandalorian & Grogu, which Jon Favreau will speedy. Manufacturing is anticipated to kick off later this 12 months and the movie was formally slated for a Could probably 22, 2026 launch earlier than at the moment.

Along with Daybreak of the Jedi and The Mandalorian film, now we have additionally acquired Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s write-up-Improve of Skywalker movie about Rey (Daisy Ridley) rebuilding the Jedi Get as very properly as a New Republic movement image getting designed by Dave Filoni which can tie collectively the tales highlighted in The Mandalorian, Ahsoka, and The Information of Boba Fett.