Donald Glover’s Star Wars TV show about Lando Calrissian is a movie now
By Dan Selcke
Donald Glover first played a young Lando Calrissian in 2018’s Solo: A Star Wars Story, which told us how Lando met his best frenemy Han Solo. A couple years later, we heard that Glover would return in a Lando TV series on Disney+. Soon enough, Disney hired a writer for the project: Justin Simien.
Then: silence for a long time. Not long before the writers strike set in earlier this summer, we learned that Simien had left the project. Now, Donald Glover and his brother Stephen would be writing the Lando show. And now, The A.V. Club reports that it won’t be a show at all, but a movie.
And that movie can’t really get underway until Hollywood studios come to a deal with the writers and actors guilds, both of which are on strikes. Although it wasn’t like the project was moving forward even before that. You ever get the idea that Disney doesn’t know what it’s doing with Star Wars? Chaos over there, I tell ya.
Anyway, Stephen Glover revealed this news on an episode of the Pablo Torre Finds Out podcast. “It’s not even a show,” he said. “The idea right now is to do a movie. Right now, because of the strike, it’s like [a game of] telephone.” You don’t say.
Night at the Museum director “putting everything I have” into new Star Wars movie that might exist one day
The list of Star Wars movie projects stuck in limbo is long. At one point Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins was going to direct a Rogue Squadron movie, but that’s been put on the back burner, if not shelved entirely. We’ve also heard precious little about the Star Wars movie Taika Waititi is supposed to direct. At one point, The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson was going to direct a whole Star Wars trilogy. Ditto Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss. Both of those projects fizzled out. CHAOS.
That said, the work continues. As it stands now, Logan director James Mangold is making a new Star Wars film, Dave Filoni is working on a movie that will dovetail with TV series like The Mandalorian and Ahsoka, and Night at the Museum director Shawn Levy is working on something.
Levy talked to Total Film about his Star Wars project. “Getting that call was a great day,” he said. “I look at my phone, and it’s [Lucasfilm president] Kathy Kennedy. Thus began a conversation that led to her inviting me in to develop and make my Star Wars movie. I’m putting everything I have into it, because I love that world, and it is a privilege to get to join that galaxy.”
Sounds nice, but with this franchise, I won’t believe it til I see it.
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