In unexpected news, Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins has stated that she is working on Star Wars: Rogue Squadron again.
Talking on the TCM/Max podcast Talking Pictures with Ben Mankiewicz, the director said that she had signed a new deal with Lucasfilm just before last summer’s Hollywood strikes.
The film was first announced with some fanfare, during a Disney investors presentation at the end of 2020, with a clip of Jenkins climbing into an X-Wing while explaining how personal the film was to her. News on the project was scarce after that with Jenkins finally stepping away to work on the now cancelled Wonder Woman 3.
With Jenkins’ calendar open again, it looks like the Star War film is now a priority again with Jenkins also on writing duty.
So, when I left Star Wars to do Wonder Woman 3 , I thought maybe I’ll come back to Star Wars after Wonder Woman 3 . So we did a deal for that to happen, started a deal, but I thought I was doing Wonder Woman.
When that went away, Lucasfilm and I were like, oh, we gotta finish this deal. We finished the deal right as the strike was happening. So I now owe a draft of Star Wars and so we will see what happens there. You know, like, who knows?
It’s hard, they have a hard job in front of them of what’s the first movie they’re gonna do. They have other directors who have been working, but I am now, you know, I’m back on doing Rogue Squadron and we’ll see what happens. We need to develop, you know, get it to where we’re both super happy with it.
Patty Jenkins
With Jon Favreau’s Mandalorian film and Daisy Ridley returning as Rey in her film, both of which are preparing to shoot at the moment, it is unclear where a Rogue Squadron film would fit into the Star Wars schedule.
The next Star Wars film is due on 22nd May, 2026.
Source: Talking Pictures podcast
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