Director James Mangold is providing extra perception into his Star Wars film that can be set in historical instances of the universe. The film is claimed to happen 25,000 years earlier than the occasions of Episode I and it’ll give attention to the delivery of The Force, however it might not truly be referred to as “The Force” within the movie. It additionally could not use the phrase “Jedi,” which makes full sense for the time interval that the film is ready in.
During a latest interview on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, when Mangold was requested if these phrases could be used, he mentioned:
“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 other people make movies other ways, I don’t tend to think people brand themselves before they’ve actually found themselves. So you don’t come up with a name for your organization … ‘Let’s put this big thing on our chests.’ I think that the branding tends to happen later.”
Mangold went on to speak about how he determined to go to this point again into Star Wars historical past to inform his story:
“When I talk to some of the Star Wars clerics who keep track of all these timelines, I was like, ‘So when would this have happened?’ 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, was that feeling of space, pun not intended but apropos, was something that I felt was really important. Not to get away from — again, fan service or the intricacies of what George [Lucas] has set up and dreamed of, but to just have the space to tell a story and not be instantly encumbered by the bases you have to hit. Which, honestly, there’s no way to explain it to folks other than to say it’s like that game we played as kids, Twister, that at a certain point, you’re in a tangle because you just are trying to find a way to tell a story with so many constraints that you can’t.”
As for whether or not or not the filmmaker has had the chance to speak to George Lucas about this movie idea, he mentioned:
“I have not had a chance to talk to him at all about what I’m thinking. He was involved and read the script and was a Ford v Ferrari fan, I’m told, but it would be very interesting to talk to him. I’m very protective of myself, in the sense of … Even describing meeting Bob Dylan in relation to the Dylan film, I like to have my sh-t together before I get into those kinds of situations. Because every good idea skates at the very edge of being precipitously awful. And every safe idea never gets towards that edge. So the trick is always to develop your idea enough that you’re compatriates and consultants and mentor can understand how you’re avoiding going over the edge, not just daring it.”
When beforehand speaking about his undertaking, he described it as a Ben-Hur or The 10 Commandments movie about The Force:
“It’s a chance to tell the entire story of its own, the birth of the force. When I first talked to Kathy Kennedy about it, I just said, ‘I just see this opening to make kind of a Ben-Hur or The 10 Commandments about the birth of the Force.’ The Force has become a kind of religious legend that spans through all these movies. But where did it come from? How is it found? Who found it? Who was the first Jedi? And that’s what I’m writing right now.”
In one other interview, when speaking about how the film would heart on the invention of The Force, Mangold mentioned:
“It just came from me thinking about if I were doing one, it seemed to me that most of what they were thinking about doing with movies were either in the present of Star Wars or the future, and what attracted me most was the distant past and how this galaxy formed and how, more specifically, the Force was discovered.”
The Star Wars franchise goes to take an extremely attention-grabbing flip with this film! I so excited to see what Mangold delivers as a result of that is an period of the universe that I’m very enthusiastic about seeing explored!
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