Taika Waititi talks his Star Wars film: “I wish to take one thing new and create some new characters”

Taika Waititi’s Star Wars film could be very a lot a thriller. There hasn’t been a movie from the galaxy far, distant since 2019’s The Rise of Skywalker, which introduced the mainline saga to an in depth – leaving the way in which clear for model new tales. Subsequent up is Waititi’s film, which, in keeping with him, will certainly be one thing completely recent. 

Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy not too long ago talked to Complete Movie about the necessity to “create a complete new saga,” and, whereas chatting to Waititi about his position in Disney Pixar’s Lightyear, we requested him if he agrees with Kennedy’s phrases. 

“Look, I feel for the Star Wars universe to develop, it has to develop,” he tells us. “I don’t assume that I’m any use within the Star Wars universe making a movie the place everybody’s like, ‘Oh nice, properly that’s the blueprints to the Millennium Falcon, ah that’s Chewbacca’s grandmother.’ That each one stands alone, that’s nice, although I wish to take one thing new and create some new characters and simply develop the world, in any other case it feels prefer it’s a really small story.”

This gained’t be Waititi’s first time within the Star Wars universe – he voiced The Mandalorian character IG-11 and helmed an episode of season 1 of the collection, so we will belief that the galaxy is in protected palms. Whereas the upcoming film doesn’t but have a launch date, Kennedy did point out that we may count on to see it in 2023, so there’s not lengthy left to attend to see Waititi’s imaginative and prescient realized. 

The director is subsequent releasing Thor: Love and Thunder this July 8, whereas Lightyear arrives a lot sooner on June 17. Within the meantime, take a look at our information to all of the upcoming Star Wars films and TV exhibits for every little thing else coming quickly from the galaxy far, distant. 

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