Donald Glover is again as Lando Calrissian on Disney+.Picture: Lucasfilm
Whats up, what have we right here? An precise replace on the Disney+ Lando collection? Don’t thoughts if we do.
io9 has confirmed that Donald Glover is formally becoming a member of the Star Wars collection to jot down and star. He’ll write along with his brother, Stephen Glover, however Justin Simien—the director of Haunted Mansion, who was initially connected—is off the venture. Above the Line first reported the information.
It’s necessary to notice although that each one this was in place earlier than the WGA or SAG-AFTRA strikes and no work has been occurring on the collection since. It’s simply a type of instances the place issues occurred lengthy earlier than the information broke, and when somebody lastly needed to discuss in public, it got here out.
In line with the experiences, Simien left the venture when he turned his consideration full-time to Haunted Mansion. That’s when Lucasfilm reached out to Glover who, alongside along with his brother, pitched and the corporate liked it. There’s no phrase on how far alongside growth or writing is, however contemplating that is the very first information that somebody is engaged on this factor in any respect in a number of years, we’ll take it.
Glover, in fact, first threw on the cape of the long-lasting Billy Dee Williams character in 2018’s Solo: A Star Wars Story. And although that movie was not the hit Disney or Lucasfilm wished it to be, just about everybody liked Glover’s interpretation of the well-known scoundrel turned Insurgent chief. Phrase of this spinoff collection was made official on the identical day we first realized in regards to the Ahsoka collection in addition to The Acolyte, means again in December 2020. Flash ahead to now, Ahsoka can be out in lower than a month and the latter is out subsequent 12 months. Lando will, hopefully, comply with a while after that.
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