In a recent interview filmmaker Damon Lindelof opens up about his Star Wars ‘Rey Sequel’ and why ultimately it failed to get off the ground. Lindelof appeared on The Ringer-Verse’s “House of R” podcast, and Star Wars came up.
Transcript via The Playlist,
“And just to talk about the Bantha in the room, I was fired off of a ‘Star Wars’ movie,” Lindelof said. “So, they asked me, ‘What do you think a ‘Star Wars’ movie should be? ‘And I said, ‘Here’s what it should be.’ And they said, ‘Great, you’re hired.’ And then two years later, I was fired. And so I was wrong, at least through that time.”
“What we were attempting to do was to have this conversation in the movie,” Lindelof said, “Which is to say there is a force of nostalgia and there is a force of revision and they are at odds with one another. And let’s do the Protestant Reformation inside ‘Star Wars.’”
“And it didn’t work,” he admitted candidly about the screenplay they were working on. “And so you get —you have your cake and eat it too, but the conversation that the fandom is having without winking and looking at the audience…that didn’t necessarily feel that risky.”
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“I may have been fired not just because they seemed to like the premise,” he said. “It was just that the writing was really hard. It was slow. Like the tone, getting it right, where it was inside of the canon, what its relationship was with to episode nine. Is it starting a new trilogy? Is it like all of those things? They’re so massive. They’re so big.”
“When episode seven came out, we all knew what it was,” Lindelof said of the franchise’s center. “It was Rey, and it was Finn, and it was Poe. And it was like all these, and then we were migrating back in, Luke and Leia and Han and Chewie and all those guys. But we’ve got the sense that when this new trilogy was over, we were going to be launching with these new characters, and that was the center of ‘Star Wars.’”
“The new question is, is Mando, are Mando and Grogu the center of ‘Star Wars’ now?”
I guess that is the question, and with no sign of Lindelof’s replacements having any luck with the script for this film either, one wonders if it ever goes any further now Kennedy has left Lucasfilm?
What do you think as Damon Lindelof details his pitch and ultimately why it failed on his Star Wars ‘Rey Sequel’?
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