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“Well, I’ve talked to [Lucasfilm] before and even worked a bit before on other projects. And I’m always interested in what’s going on there and have friends who work on other Star Wars projects. But I understood that much of what they were doing was kind of continuing the saga forward.”

“So when I mentioned to Kathy [Kennedy, Lucasfilm president] the idea that I had about going backward—really far backward—I was surprised that it excited her and the other wonderful people she works with at Lucasfilm. For me, it’s about, I want to be part of the saga, but I also don’t want to be holding so much lore in the air that you can hardly tell a story. And what I really wanted to do, what I told her, was just can we make a kind of the Ten Commandments of the Force, you know? A kind of origin story of how the Force came to be known, understood, wielded, and harnessed.”

"When I talked to some of the Star Wars clerics that keep track of all of these timelines, I was like 'So when would this happen?' And they were like '25,000 years before Episode I,' and I was like 'Oh, I was looking for some distance, but that’s distance.'"

"The reality for me is that that feeling of space, no pun intended, was something that I felt was really important not to get away from fan service or the intricacies of what George had set up and dreamed of, but to just have the space to tell a story and not be instantly encumbered with the bases you have to hit."

"I don’t wanna make any guarantees one way or another, but it will be before Jedi. Meaning, you might be experiencing something that might become Jedi. Despite the fact that people make movies other ways, I don’t tend to think people brand themselves before they’ve actually found themselves."

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"James Mangold's Jedi Prime is set thousands and thousands of years before [the original trilogy], and I'm really excited to see what happens there."

Deadline a écrit:”My partner (Beau Willimon) and I have been writing it. I don’t know what’s next because we haven’t gotten to the end of that process, we’re trying to finish a draft.”

EagleWolf a écrit:(NB : la source n'est pas Empire mais Daniel Ritchman, et aucun calendrier de production n'est spécifié)

"To me, the really important aspects are the freedom to make something new. Beau and I, in relation to Star Wars, have been working on a script, and we'll see what happens [...] Do we find a way on the page to say something original?"

"The Star Wars movie would be taking place 25,000 years before any known Star Wars movies takes place. It's an area and a playground that I've always [wanted to explore] and that I was inspired by as a teenager. I'm not that interested in being handcuffed by so much lore at this point that it's almost immovable, and you can't please anybody."

"Success is never guaranteed, but the reality is that the way to get most people to agree is to move them; to somehow find the humanity in a situation. Whether it's a mega-franchise or a smaller dramatic movie, whatever they are, usually the movies you remember are the ones that move you. The ones that leave you cold, even if they're clever, even if they're spectacular, even if they're dazzling, somehow just become replaced by the next dazzling object a year later. It's the feelings, it's "the feels," right? That truly defines how we feel about these movies and whether we care to visit them again."

Deadline a écrit:
DEADLINE: You’ve still got that prequel with James Mangold, who’s Oscar-nominated for the Bob Dylan movie A Compete Unknown?

KENNEDY: "Yep. He’s working on this script right now. Simon’s working on scripts right now. Shawn, we had been working with him already for about a year and a half. These guys are available now. Jim, he got delayed a bit because of the Dylan movie and the awards season. You have to accommodate top talent to a certain extent. And quality is so important with what it is we’re trying to do. I like to wait for people that I think are passionate and really good to step into Star Wars."