New Zealand filmmaker Taika Waititi is growing his “Star Wars” movie with co-writer Krystyn Wilson-Cairns, who earned an Oscar nomination for penning the war-thriller “1917.” In an interview with Rolling Stone in July 2022, the filmmaker urged that whereas he wasn’t thinking about simply diving into origin tales for characters we had already met and recognized, he nonetheless wished to take his time to analysis and write one thing followers would love.
Waititi can not assist however really feel unsure about how the fandom would react — he does not wish to “mess” with one thing that is so “treasured.” So no, he will not be making a film about Chewbacca’s grandmother and stuff.
“I simply really feel like for me, I am by no means gonna please the followers. You recognize, I do not wish to mess with one thing that is so treasured. Additionally, you’re feeling like you have to do a variety of analysis…and I haven’t got any time. [Laughs] I imply, there’s hundreds of books which have been written, these volumes of books about ‘Star Wars’ with all these characters. I simply haven’t got time to get by way of them. So I am unable to say like, you recognize, confidently, I would be capable to do one thing that is like very near what everybody is aware of. I am not promising that I am not going to do something like that. I am simply saying: It might be simpler for me to not try this. Would you wish to see a Jar Jar Binks film?”