Director James Mangold can be busy with some main properties, formally signing on to helm a brand new Star Wars film.
The Star Wars Celebration has provided loads of main bulletins to this point, not the least of which is a brand new film set to be directed by James Mangold, who’s definitely acquainted with main franchises.
Throughout the occasion, Empire caught up with James Mangold to debate his standalone Star Wars film, which can be set a very long time in the past–sure, in a galaxy far, distant. Concerning the timeframe, Mangold mentioned, “It takes place 25,000 years earlier than Episode IV, and it’s in regards to the discovery of the Power.” However it’s not simply the earlier Star Wars motion pictures that influenced Mangold, but additionally biblical epics of the Nineteen Fifties. “I informed Kathy [Kennedy, head of Lucasfilm] I wished to make a sort of Bible film, a sort of Ten Commandments of Star Wars–sort of a Cecil B DeMille movie in regards to the arrival of the Power, and that’s what I’ve been pecking away at between press occasions. That’s the concept.”
James Mangold additionally mentioned that his Star Wars film will be capable of stand by itself however nonetheless owes lots to the franchise’s legacy, saying, “It’s a film that each connects to the worlds we all know, however can also be far sufficient away from it that I believe there’s a whole lot of alternatives to inform a narrative freely, additionally…and never be so extremely tied in by the knots and totally different story strands which are already in place.”
Mangold is without doubt one of the busiest guys in Hollywood proper now. Along with a Star Wars film, James Mangold additionally has the fifth Indiana Jones entry set for a Cannes Movie Pageant debut, writing/directing duties on the Swamp Factor film for the DC Universe and a Bob Dylan biopic within the works. He was as soon as tied to a Buster Keaton biopic, however that appears to have been overtaken by Matt Reeves, who is about to direct Rami Malek because the silent-era comic.
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