“Lost” and “Watchmen” mastermind Damon Lindelof has detailed why he was fired from writing a Star Wars film and teases what the story would’ve been about.
Lindelof was a visitor on the May 18 episode of The Ringer’s “House of R” podcast and, early on in a prolonged dialogue about “Star Wars,” talked about that he wished to “talk about the Bantha in the room.”
“I was fired off of a ‘Star Wars’ movie,” he says. “They requested me, ‘What do you think a “Star Wars” movie should be?’ And I stated, ‘Here’s what it needs to be.’ They usually stated, ‘Great, you’re employed.’ After which two years later, I used to be fired. And so I used to be unsuitable, a minimum of by that prism. However what we have been trying to do, my accomplice Justin Britt-Gibson, Rayna McClendon and I, what we have been trying to do was to have this dialog within the film, which is to say there’s a Pressure of nostalgia and there’s a Pressure of revision, and they’re at odds with each other, and let’s do the Protestant Reformation inside ‘Star Wars,’ and it didn’t work. You might have your cake and eat it too. The dialog that the fandom is having, with out winking and searching on the viewers, that didn’t really feel essentially that dangerous.”
Lindelof was introduced as the author of a brand new “Star Wars” film in 2022, however by 2023 it was revealed that he had left the venture. He stated that the trickiest half was determining find out how to make his story hook up with the present universe.
“The writing was really hard,” he says. “It was slow. Like the tone, getting it right, where it was inside of the canon, what its relationship was to Episode IX. Is it starting a new trilogy? Is it like all of those things? They’re so massive. They’re so big. It’s sort of a tanker equation, which is you turn the wheel and it takes five minutes before it turns a little bit like this. When Episode VII came out, we all knew what it was Rey and it was Finn and it was Poe and then we were migrating back in and Luke and Leia and Han and Chewy and all those guys. But we got the sense that, when this new trilogy was over, we were going to be launching with these new characters, and that was the center of ‘Star Wars.’ The new question is are Mando and Grogu the center of ‘Star Wars’?”
The latest Star Wars movie, “The Mandalorian and Grogu,” opens theatrically on Could 22.
