One of many Star Wars tasks that’s arrange at Lucasfilm that I’m most excited and interested in is the one being developed by director James Mangold, which is being known as Daybreak of the Jedi.
The story will happen 25,000 years earlier than the occasions of the unique trilogy, and it’ll concentrate on the delivery of The Power. That is some freakin’ superior Star Wars lore to discover.
THR has provided an replace on the mission and revealed that Home of Playing cards creator Beau Willimon has come on board to co-write the script with Mangold. Willimon isn’t any stranger to Star Wars as he additionally wrote three episodes of Andor Season 1, which earned him an Emmy nomination for Excellent Writing for a Drama Collection.
Mangold beforehand talked about his mission and the way the movie got here to be, and defined why it is set within the distant previous:
“I’ve talked to [Lucasfilm] earlier than and even labored a bit earlier than on different tasks, and I am all the time inquisitive about what is going on on there and have mates who work on different Star Wars tasks. However I understood that a lot of what they have been doing was sort of persevering with the saga ahead.”
Mangold then went on to speak concerning the pitch he made to Lucasfilm saying:
“So after I talked about to Kathy [Kennedy, Lucasfilm president] the concept that I had about going backward – actually far backward – I used to be shocked that it excited her and the opposite fantastic folks she works with at Lucasfilm. For me, it’s about, I wish to be a part of the saga, however I additionally don’t wish to be holding a lot lore within the air you can hardly inform a narrative. And what I actually needed to do, what I advised her, was simply can we make a sort of the Ten Commandments of the Power, you already know? A sort of origin story of how the Power got here to be recognized, understood, wielded, and harnessed.”
Mangold additionally described the film as a Ben-Hur or The ten Commandments movie about The Power:
“It’s an opportunity to inform your entire story of its personal, the delivery of the pressure. After I first talked to Kathy Kennedy about it, I simply mentioned, ‘I simply see this opening to make sort of a Ben-Hur or The ten Commandments concerning the delivery of the Power.’ The Power has change into a sort of spiritual legend that spans by means of all these films. However the place did it come from? How is it discovered? Who discovered it? Who was the primary Jedi? And that’s what I’m writing proper now.”
In one other interview, when speaking about how the film would heart on the invention of The Power, Mangold mentioned:
“It simply got here from me eager about if I have been doing one, it appeared to me that the majority of what they have been eager about doing with films have been both within the current of Star Wars or the longer term, and what attracted me most was the distant previous and the way this galaxy shaped and the way, extra particularly, the Power was found.”
What we do know concerning the early historical past of The Power was that in “36,453 BBY, philosophers and scientists from a number of Star programs gathered on Tython to share mystical data. The Power was ‘found.’ Sadly, in 25,793 BBY, a number of Tythan students started utilizing their data of the Power to pursue energy, resulting in the start of the Power Wars. Peace-minded monks that survived the destruction on Tython established the Jedi Order in 25,783 BBY.”
I’m fascinated by this Star Wars lore and I’m excited to see what Mangold finally ends up doing with it as he tells the story.
