New Zealand filmmaker Taika Waititi is growing his “Star Wars” movie with co-writer Krystyn Wilson-Cairns, who earned an Oscar nomination for penning the war-thriller “1917.” In an interview with Rolling Stone in July 2022, the filmmaker advised that whereas he wasn’t concerned about simply diving into origin tales for characters we had already met and recognized, he nonetheless wished to take his time to analysis and write one thing followers would love.

Waititi can’t assist however really feel unsure about how the fandom would react — he does not need to “mess” with one thing that is so “treasured.” So no, he will not be making a film about Chewbacca’s grandmother and stuff.

“I simply really feel like for me, I am by no means gonna please the followers. , I do not need to mess with one thing that is so treasured. Additionally, you are feeling like you have to do lots of analysis…and I haven’t got any time. [Laughs] I imply, there’s 1000’s of books which were written, these volumes of books about ‘Star Wars’ with all these characters. I simply do not have time to get by way of them. So I am unable to say like, , confidently, I might have the ability to do one thing that is like very near what everybody is aware of. I am not promising that I am not going to do something like that. I am simply saying: It might be simpler for me to not do this. Would you prefer to see a Jar Jar Binks film?”