Taika Waititi’s ‘Star Wars’ Movie Will Reject Pre-Existing Characters and Origins: ‘Expand the World’
variety.comZack Sharf Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy wasn’t joking when she told Total Film magazine last month that “Star Wars” will need “to create a whole new saga” in order to return to the big screen and not just rely on threads from the past.
That’s exactly what Taika Waititi wants to do with his upcoming “Star Wars” movie, which will be the franchise’s first movie since the Skywalker saga came to a controversial end with “The Rise of Skywalker.”Waititi recently told Total Film that he’s not interested in making a movie with pre-existing characters and story threads (think “Rogue One” which connects directly to “A New Hope” through the Death Star ) or telling origin stories (think Ron Howard’s polarizing Han Solo prequel “Solo”).
The “Thor: Love and Thunder” director aims to “create some new characters” and “expand the world” of “Star Wars” with his movie. “Look, I think for the ‘Star Wars’ universe to expand, it has to expand,” Waititi said.
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