Film Star Wars coécrit et réalisé par Taika Waititi [Lucasfilm - 202?]

Un film coécrit et réalisé par Taika Waititi (Thor : Ragnarok, Jojo Rabbit) a été annoncé par Lucasfilm : https://www.starwars.com/news/taika-waititi-announce

Le scénario sera coécrit avec Krysty Wilson-Cairns (1917, Last Night in Soho).

La date de sortie en salle n'est pas encore connue.

je suis curieux de voir cela... ma mere n'a pas apprécié du tout jojo rabbit du meme réalisateur...

Le film coécrit et réalisé par Taika Waititi est actuellement en développement.

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Untitled Taika Waititi Film

A brand-new Star Wars feature with acclaimed filmmaker and Academy Award-winner Taika Waititi is in development. “Taika’s approach to Star Wars will be fresh, unexpected, and…unique,” said Kennedy. “His enormous talent and sense of humor will ensure that audiences are in for an unforgettable ride.”

Taika Waititi s'attaquera-t'il à son projet Star Wars en cours de développement après Thor: Love and Thunder dont il achève le tournage en ce moment en Australie ?  

Possible mais pas certain vu le calendrier bien rempli du réalisateur (créations, réalisation, productions...) !

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Waititi expects to be post-producing Thor until February, then he will finish some television projects and move onto his next movie.

“I don’t know if that’s going to be Star Wars,” he says. “I hope it’ll be that but there’s a whole lot of other little things that I’ve got my sticky little fingers attached to so we’ll see.”

https://www.smh.com.au/culture/movies/in-the-world-of-the-internet-everything-goes-away-pretty-quick-taika-waititi-20210604-p57y1o.html

A priori, le film sortirait avant Rogue Squadron :

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A movie from Jojo Rabbit’s Taika Waititi and 1917 screenwriter Krysty Wilson-Cairns will likely arrive first, with Rogue Squadron from Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins further off.

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/05/star-wars-cover-the-rebellion-will-be-televised

Cela signifie que le film de Waititi pourrait final se positionner à Noël 2023, Rogue Squadron passant ainsi à Noël 2025.

A l'heure actuelle, Taika Waititi travaille toujours sur le scénario et la mise en place des intrigues de son film :

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Taika Waititi Shares Update On His Star Wars Movie

Taika Waititi shares an update on how his Star Wars movie, stating he wants to make sure it fits within the franchise's wheelhouse.

Taika Waititi shares an update on how his Star Wars movie is progressing. In the past few years following Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Lucasfilm has shifted towards TV to tell new stories in the galaxy far, far away, as seen with series such as The Mandalorian and Obi-Wan Kenobi. However, the studio still has plans for Star Wars to return to the big screen at some point. Officially, Patty Jenkins' Rogue Squadron is on the calendar for a December 2023 release, but that film has been delayed due to creative differences. Instead, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy said Waititi's Star Wars movie is next up, targeting that 2023 date.

Best known for his work on Marvel's Thor movies, Waititi already has experience in the Star Wars franchise, helming the Mandalorian season 1 finale. His work on that episode was widely praised, making many viewers excited to see what he can deliver in a Star Wars feature film. In typical Lucasfilm fashion, details on Waititi's project are being kept under wraps, but now the director has opened up a bit about what he's working on.

Speaking with Screen Rant while promoting Pixar's Lightyear, Waititi discussed his upcoming Star Wars movie and how it might be different from previous installments. In his response, Waititi remarked how he wants to ensure it "feels like a Star Wars film" by keeping some of the franchise's familiar aspects. Check out his comments in the space below:

"That's yet to be seen. I don't know. I'm still writing. I'm still coming up with the ideas and storylining it and just wanted to make sure that it feels like a Star Wars film.

Because, I could say, "Oh yeah, we'll just write any old thing and set in space and then put Star Wars on the front." But it wouldn't be a Star Wars film without certain elements and a certain treatment, so I've just got to make sure that it stays within that wheelhouse."

Waititi's time with Marvel should benefit him on Star Wars. With Thor, he proved he could deliver studio tentpoles that fit into a larger property, while still maintaining his unique sensibilities as an auteur. Waititi's trademark style effortlessly blends heart and humor to satisfying results (see: his Oscar-winning Jojo Rabbit), and the hope has been that approach will be allowed to shine through on his Star Wars movie. Lucasfilm has become rather infamous for extensive behind-the-scenes troubles with directors, but it sounds like Waititi isn't going to fall victim to that trend. Though he's still in the early stages of development, it sounds like he has a firm handle on the project and knows what he wants it to achieve. Hopefully, that means he stays on the same page with the studio through production.

It will be interesting to see when Lucasfilm reveals more information about Waititi's Star Wars movie. Lucasfilm is part of the D23 Expo in September, where the studio will presumably offer teases of what's to come. Kennedy could use that opportunity to provide additional clarity on the future Star Wars movie slate, after Star Wars Celebration was dedicated to outlining the upcoming TV lineup. If Waititi's movie is to premiere in 2023, things will have to come into fruition soon. At the very least, it would be good to get some story details about what the director has in mind for his Star Wars film.

https://screenrant.com/star-wars-movie-taika-waititi-script-updates/

Taika Waititi a été tellement impressionné par la performance de Natalie Portman dans Thor : Love and Thunder qu'il lui a demandé d'apparaître dans son prochain film Star Wars, oubliant qu'elle était déjà apparue dans les préquelles de Star Wars dans le rôle de Padmé Amidala   Un petit peu inquiétant quand même...

Selon Variety, le film est toujours en développement, et Taika Waititi pourrait y interpréter un rôle important en plus d'en être le réalisateur.

Variety a écrit:

‘Star Wars’ Shakeup: Kevin Feige and Patty Jenkins Movies Shelved, Taika Waititi Looking to Star in His Own Film (EXCLUSIVE)

When Jon Favreau stepped onto the red carpet for the Season 3 premiere of “The Mandalorian” on Feb. 28, the Disney+ show’s creator and executive producer was feeling nostalgic.

“It’s been a while since we’ve been all together here like this,” Favreau told Variety, evoking the November 2019 premiere for the launch of the show — and of Disney+ itself. “It was before the first episode aired!”

At that time, “The Mandalorian” was a scrappy landspeeder in the vast “Star Wars” galaxy, nipping at the heels of “The Rise of Skywalker,” the culminating feature film from director J.J. Abrams that was expected just a month later to obliterate the box office like a cinematic Death Star. Instead, “The Mandalorian” became a global sensation thanks to the incandescent cuteness of Baby Yoda, blasting Disney+ into light-speed with 26.5 million subscribers in its first six weeks.

“The Rise of Skywalker,” on the other hand, imploded in spectacular fashion. The film earned just half the grosses of 2015’s “The Force Awakens” and the widespread scorn of fans, and “Star Wars” movie development has been stuck in the bogs of Dagobah ever since. Whereas Disney+ boasts a robust fleet of live-action “Star Wars” series — three streamed in 2022 alone — not a single “Star Wars” movie has received a greenlight, let alone gone into production. The earliest a film is scheduled to debut in theaters is December 2025, six years after “The Rise of Skywalker.”

It’s not for want of trying. In December 2020, Lucasfilm chief Kathleen Kennedy announced that “Wonder Woman” helmer Patty Jenkins would direct the next “Star Wars” movie, the one-off adventure “Rogue Squadron.” But in September 2022, Disney pulled the title from its scheduled December 2023 release, and sources with knowledge of the production say it is no longer in active development at the studio. (A rep for Lucasfilm did not respond to a request for comment. In December, Jenkins said in a statement that she was still developing “Rogue Squadron,” but “I don’t know if it will happen or not.”)

Meanwhile, Variety has learned that a possible “Star Wars” feature produced by Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige is also no longer in active development at Lucasfilm.

When news of Feige’s involvement with a “Star Wars” film broke in September 2019, it churned up fan speculation, since widely debunked, that he was in line to replace Kennedy as the leader of Lucasfilm. The movie remained alive as recently as May 2022, when screenwriter Michael Waldron (“Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness”) told Variety that he’d started working on a “Star Wars” screenplay for Feige. “I’m enjoying having the freedom on that to do something that’s not necessarily a sequel or anything,” Waldron said.

Five months later, Feige hired Waldron to write the script for 2026’s “Avengers: Secret Wars,” the “Endgame”-style culmination of Marvel Studios’ Multiverse Saga. Between that project and the 19 other titles (and counting) that Marvel’s announced for theaters and streaming in the next four years, Feige’s responsibilities to the MCU are keeping him far, far away from “Star Wars” for much of the decade.

As for Rian Johnson, the in-demand filmmaker has made no secret that he still wants to make the “Star Wars” movies he first announced in 2017 before the release of his film “The Last Jedi,” and Kennedy has been clear that Lucasfilm still wants him, too. But Johnson’s immediate priorities — continuing his Benoit Blanc movies with Daniel Craig for Netflix and Season 2 of hit Peacock series “Poker Face” with Natasha Lyonne — will keep him occupied for the foreseeable future.

So what “Star Wars” movie could slot into that open December 2025 release date? Sources say “Thor: Love and Thunder” filmmaker Taika Waititi continues to work on his possible “Star Wars” feature, and he would most likely have a part in it as well, similar in prominence to his standout role as an imaginary Adolf Hitler in his Oscar-winning 2019 feature “Jojo Rabbit.” And although Lucasfilm has yet to officially confirm it, sources say the studio is committed to a “Star Wars” movie from director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, a two-time Oscar-winning documentarian (“Saving Face,” “A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness”), who made her live-action narrative debut with two episodes of 2022’s “Ms. Marvel” for Disney+. Damon Lindelof (“Watchmen”) and Justin Britt-Gibson (“Counterpart”) were attached in October to write the script for that movie.

Whether one of those films, or some as-yet-unannounced project, lands at the front of the line has been a fiercely guarded secret at Lucasfilm, but sources say the studio will begin to unveil its plans for the future of “Star Wars” cinema at the Star Wars Celebration convention in London the weekend of April 7. That announcement, however, will compete with expected updates for at least four Disney+ series, including the final season of the critically acclaimed “Andor”; new shows from Leslye Headland (“The Acolyte”) and Jon Watts (“Skeleton Crew”); and the first major push for “Ahsoka,” a spinoff of “The Mandalorian” and the animated series “The Clone Wars” starring Rosario Dawson that aims to debut in late summer.

So, for now, Lucasfilm’s message to “Star Wars” movie fans: Patience, you must have.

Après avoir vu Thor: Love and Thunder, que j'ai trouvé extrêmement mauvais, j'ai très peur pour ce Star Wars.

laissez Star Wars mourrir en paix svp.

Kathleen Kennedy confirme que Taika Waititi travaille toujours sur son film Star Wars, le processus prend du temps mais Kathleen Kennedy semble confiante.

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“Taika is still working away,” she said. “He’s writing the script himself. He doesn’t really want to bring others into that process and I don’t blame him. He has a very, very unique voice. So we want to protect that and that’s what he’s doing. But we’re going to make that one day.”

https://variety.com/2023/film/news/kathleen-kennedy-star-wars-celebration-lucasfilm-daisy-ridley-obi-wan-kenobi-season-2-1235577414/

Taika Waititi confirme que son film verra le jour mais qu'il n'entend pas précipiter le processus de création. Au contraire; il souhaite prendre le temps nécessaire :

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“I’ve been developing [the Star Wars film] for a few years, but I think with any film, but that one in particular, it’s something I’d really like to get right so I don’t want to rush it,” Waititi said. “It’s going to bubble along on the side…I wanna capture that joy and entertainment of those early ones like The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi and all those ones, so I’m trying to figure that out. It’ll happen.”