Star Wars fans know that Lucasfilm is a somewhat militant company when it comes to movies. The number of unproduced theatrical releases increases every year. Patty Jenkins’ Star Wars: Rogue Squadron becomes one of the films launching in late 2022 as the director sets his sights on other films first. But surprise, surprise!As it turns out, Rogue Squadron isn’t completely Not dead yet.
Sometimes projects fall apart due to creative differences. As for other cool-sounding movies, they never happened due to the busy schedules of the filmmakers and the studios choosing different directions at the same time. As for Jenkins, she has been busy filming Wonder Woman 3 and the Cleopatra biopic starring Gal Gadot. She left the latter to focus on the DC trilogy and Star Wars, but World War III was also canceled in late 2022 as DC Studios pivoted to a full reboot of their shared universe. So what now? It looks like Rogue Squadron will be back again.
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Jenkins recently told host Ben Mankiewicz on the TCM/Max podcast Talking Pictures (a tribute to Collider) that she signed a deal last year to return to a galaxy far, far away. “So, when I left Star Wars to do Wonder Woman 3, I thought maybe I would come back to Star Wars after Wonder Woman 3,” she said, “so we worked on that Got a deal, started a deal, but I thought I was doing Wonder Woman. When that went away, Lucasfilm and I thought, oh, we have to get this deal done. We were on strike It seals the deal when it happens. So I owe a draft of Star Wars right now, so we’ll see what happens there. You know, who knows?”
She sounds unsure whether her “dream project,” a Top Gun-like movie, will work beyond the script stage, but that’s how things work at modern-day Lucasfilm. In addition to The Mandalorian vs. Grogu and the upcoming Rey Skywalker-led sequel, there may also be Dave Filoni’s New Republic era crossover movie that will combine The Mandalorian , Ahsoka and more Disney+ series combined, everything about Star Wars is far from the dry drama. Locked.
Rogue Squadron joins the “not quite dead, but almost dead” drawer filled with talent led by the likes of Taika Waititi, Shawn Levy, Donald Glover and Rian Johnson ’s long-running Star Wars theatrical project. At the very least, it sounds like Lucasfilm is carefully evaluating all the options before them before making a half-baked movie like 2019’s The Rise of Skywalker.
