Patty Jenkins Says Her ‘Star Wars’ Movie Is Back On

While it by no means appeared to maneuver past its preliminary idea, director Patty Jenkins says her Star Wars movie about X-wing pilots, Rogue Squadron, just isn’t lifeless.

In an look on TCM’s Talking Pictures podcast, Jenkins informed host Ben Mankiewicz she was nonetheless engaged on a script for Rogue Squadron. The movie was beforehand presumed to be canceled, together with a number of different announced-but-unshot Star Wars movies of current years.

In Jenkins’ case, she left the movie to develop a 3rd Wonder Woman movie — however then that undertaking wound up falling aside.

“When I left Star Wars to do Wonder Woman 3, and I started working on that, we talked about, ‘Well, maybe I’ll come back to Star Wars after Wonder Woman 3,’ so we started a deal for that to happen.”

“When Wonder Woman 3 then went away, Lucasfilm and I were like ‘Oh, we’ve got to finish this deal.’ We finished the deal right as the strike was beginning, so I now owe a draft of Star Wars.”

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Jenkins’ pitch for the film was basically Top Gun set on this planet of Star Wars. Rogue Squadron was introduced by Lucasfilm and Disney in December of 2020. They had been assured sufficient within the undertaking at the moment to even produce a teaser hyping the film.

Lucasfilm mentioned Rogue Squadron would “introduce a new generation of starfighter pilots as they earn their wings and risk their lives in a boundary-pushing, high-speed thrill-ride, and move the saga into the future era of the galaxy.” But not lengthy after the announcement of the movie, Lucasfilm began asserting delays; the film was initially anticipated to open in theaters in 2023. Now … who is aware of?

You can take heed to Jenkins’ full look on Talking Pictures beneath.