Star Wars : trilogie écrite par Simon Kinberg [Lucasfilm - 20??]

Selon Deadline, Lucasfilm aurait conclu un accord avec Simon Kinberg pour développer une trilogie de films Star Wars que le scénariste écrirait et coproduirait. 

Deadline a écrit:

Star Wars Trilogy Deal: Lucasfilm Taps Simon Kinberg To Write & Produce

Lucasfilm has closed a deal with Simon Kinberg to develop a trilogy of Star Wars films. Kinberg will write the trio, and produce them with Lucasfilm chief Kathleen Kennedy.

I heard this will comprise episodes 10-12 of The Skywalker Saga that began with George Lucas’s 1977 first film that along with Steven Spielberg’s Jaws reshaped the global blockbuster game. Insiders disputed my intel that Kinberg will continue that storyline, saying this will instead begin a new saga, and sit alongside Star Wars percolating projects with James Mangold, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Taika Waititi and Donald Glover. As usual, Lucasfilm and Disney are not commenting. 

Kinberg previously worked with Lucasfilm in co-creating with Dave Filoni and Carrie Beck the Emmy-nominated animated series Star Wars Rebels that ran for four seasons from 2014-2018. He was also a consultant on Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, the J.J. Abrams-directed film that revived the franchise in 2015.

He has also been heavily involved in other franchises as writer and/or producer. That includes a decade spent on the X-Men films and the Logan spinoff film that starred Hugh Jackman and was directed by Mangold. He was also producer of the first two Deadpool films, and exec producer of the 2024 blockbuster Deadpool & Wolverine; he produced the Ridley Scott-directed The Martian‘ and has scripted such films as Mr & Mrs Smith and co-wrote the film that launched the Sherlock Holmes franchise with Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law. He also produced the Kenneth Branagh Agatha Christie film trilogy that started with Murder on the Orient Express. In short, he’s comfortable in the franchise sphere.

Upcoming, Kinberg is producing Paramount’s remake of Stephen King’s The Running Man, which just went into production. Edgar Wright is directing Glen Powell, Josh Brolin, Emilia Jones, William H. Macy and Lee Pace. He also is attached to produce Paramount’s Star Trek movie directed by Toby Haynes and penned by Seth Grahame-Smith.

https://deadline.com/2024/11/star-wars-trilogy-simon-kinberg-movies-1236169916/

Et donc dans un an, il est viré et le projet de nouvelle trilogie abandonné. Le cycle normal de la vie des auteurs chez Lucasfilm...

Variety a écrit:

Why Lucasfilm Entrusted Simon Kinberg to Pilot the Next ‘Star Wars’ Movies

When news broke on Thursday that Simon Kinberg — best known for being a writer, producer, director or all of the above on much of the “X-Men” franchise — had been hired by Lucasfilm to write and produce a new “Star Wars” trilogy, it came as a surprise to many executives at Lucasfilm and Disney. The project is considered internally to be in deep development and not nearly ready to be made public.

There was also some surprise within the wider industry that Lucasfilm had turned to Kinberg as the newest steward of “Star Wars” on the big screen. According to multiple industry sources with experience working in the franchise space, Kinberg is seen on one level as a sensible and safe choice. Starting with 2005’s “XXX: State of the Union” and “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” his films as a screenwriter have grossed more than $3.3 billion worldwide. Beyond the “X-Men” films, he’s also produced “Cinderella,” “The Martian” and Kenneth Branagh’s three Hercule Poirot films, all to ample success. He’s said to understand how to talk to film executives about franchise filmmaking in a way that allays their concerns about creative decisions affecting the costly bottom line for these kinds of projects. 

On another level, however, Kinberg is regarded by some as a considerably risky bet. “Dark Phoenix,” his directorial debut in 2019, was the lowest-grossing and the worst-reviewed film in the “X-Men” franchise to that point. Kinberg also produced the final “X-Men” movie, “The New Mutants,” which was delayed so frequently — due to an inauspicious brew of creative concerns and Disney’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox — that the film wound up getting dumped as the first major wide release during the pandemic. Now that “X-Men” is firmly under the auspices of Marvel Studios, Kinberg has labored to recreate his earlier success. His next (and, to date, last) effort as a director, 2022’s spy thriller “The 355” with Jessica Chastain, was a financial disaster, grossing just $18.9 million worldwide.

Lucasfilm, meanwhile, has faced substantial difficulty launching a comprehensive film slate following 2019’s “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”; to date, only “The Mandalorian & Grogu,” a spin-off of the popular Disney+ series “The Mandalorian,” has received an official greenlight. So given Kinberg’s recent track record, what would lead Lucasfilm to enlist him to pilot a new fleet of “Star Wars” movies?

One major factor, says one source with knowledge of the deal, is Kinberg’s continuing creative relationship with Lucasfilm creative executive Carrie Beck and chief creative officer Dave Filoni, who both worked with Kinberg on the well-regarded 2014-2018 animated series “Star Wars Rebels.” Lucasfilm chief Kathleen Kennedy, however, was the one who made the outreach to Kinberg about making a live-action “Star Wars” movie. She’d already brought him into the “Star Wars” fold, once in 2012 as part of a brain trust with screenwriters Michael Arndt and Lawrence Kasdan to map out early ideas for Disney’s first three “Star Wars” movies — work that was largely discarded after 2015’s “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” Kinberg was tapped again in 2018 to write a standalone Boba Fett feature with director James Mangold, but they were never able to submit a full script. The box office failure of “Solo: A Star Wars Story” that year coupled with Disney’s new mandate to create content for its upcoming streaming service caused Kennedy to shift the studio’s “Star Wars” strategy away from standalone movies. The Boba Fett film was canceled just months after Mangold and Kinberg were hired. 

Studio insiders also stress that, while media reports have claimed that Kinberg’s “Star Wars” movies will continue the Skywalker Saga as Episodes X, XI and XII, the films are in their most nascent stage. Kinberg’s efforts are meant to create a new saga, but as is the case with virtually all script development, specific plot details and characters are light years away from taking their final shape, let alone arrive in theaters.

Kinberg is also already committed to helping revive another celebrated sci-fi franchise that has hit a fallow period, signing on to produce what Paramount’s aims will be its next “Star Trek” movie, directed by Joby Harold and written by Seth Grahame-Smith. And Kinberg is producing Edgar Wright’s “The Running Man” with Glen Powell, which Paramount has slated for November 2025. Given the abundant time and commitment it takes to mount one “Star Wars” movie, let alone three, whatever Kinberg’s “Star Wars” movies wind up being, they are likely far, far away into the future.

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/simon-kinberg-star-wars-kathleen-kennedy-lucasfilm-1236205529/

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