Bit of a strange one this! The former Lando writer Justin Simien reveals he still hasn’t been told he’s replaced officially. As I’m sure you are aware Simien was writing a draft for a Lando TV series. However, it was then revealed that the series was now a movie. Additionally, that movie is being written by star Donald Glover and his brother Stephen.

Simien reacted on social media to say this report was the first he had heard of it. That sucks, but, it happens from time to time. What I would then expect to happen though is as follows. Someone from Lucasfilm contacts Simien, apologizes for the way he found out and maintains a working relationship. That did not happen, and now Simien is a bit peeved.

Here is what Simien told TheWrap.

‘In a recent interview, he told TheWrap that the news article he saw on social media announcing the decision “was and remains the only official word I ever heard about my involvement on the project.”’

‘He added that he did get “an appraisal of the script I wrote,” but the studio has otherwise not been in touch.’

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However, Simien did say he felt like the word was coming soon enough.

“It was the first time I had gotten any official confirmation at all about what was happening with [‘Lando’],” Simien said. “You’d certainly, like, hear rumors. It’s a small town. Donald Glover and I have a lot of mutual friends. So I had some idea of possibilities of what might be happening and why we haven’t heard from anybody.”

Simien then went on to talk about the recent news of Guillermo del Toro’s Jabba the Hutt movie being canned. He then has a bit of a dig at Lucasfilm (understandably) and it doesn’t seem like he’d been keen to get invited back.

“I’m seeing Guillermo del Toro making the rounds [online], who also was attached to the ‘Haunted Mansion’ incidentally, at a certain point, talking about his Jabba the Hutt movie that didn’t get made. There’s a pattern, isn’t there? And at least I’m not alone in this situation,” Simien said. “But I would say, I don’t know how it went [for del Toro] — I don’t know why anybody would sign up for that again, to sort of like pour your heart and soul into something, and then to wait for several years, and then find out in an article that someone else is doing it. Yeah, I don’t know if I want to do that again. That doesn’t sound fun to me at all.”

I get it, though I guess if I were in Simien’s shoes and they got in touch with another opportunity I’d have to consider it. I guess I’m the sucker.

What do you think of his comments as former Lando writer Justin Simien reveals he still hasn’t been told he’s replaced officially? Thoughts below as always.

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