Clearly trying to preserve his hand within the competitors for Busiest Director/Producer in Hollywood, Shawn Levy is including one other potential massive venture to his To Do listing. He is now in talks to direct an unknown new Star Wars movie.

In line with Deadline, that is all there may be to the story proper now – Levy’s in discussions to deal with a future film set within the galaxy far, distant, however no phrase on who could be writing it.

And lest you suppose that is a type of rumours that vanish into the ether as quickly because the story is on-line, Levy confirmed that discussions are a minimum of underway through social media.

In fact, the way forward for massive display Star Wars is much from clear, as there have been reviews of varied massive names – Taika Waititi, Rian Johnson, Kevin Feige and Damon Lindelof amongst them — linked to films within the works, with nothing to indicate but save an untitled entry dated for December 2025.

Even movies which can be formally introduced, similar to Patty Jenkins’ much-ballyhooed Rogue Squadron, have appeared to fade right into a mire of improvement and scrapped launch slots.

Given Levy’s packed schedule (he is nonetheless an government producer on Stranger Issues and can direct a minimum of one episode within the present’s fifth and remaining season and there is additionally the small matter of Deadpool 3 with common collaborator/new bezzie mate Ryan Reynolds resulting from hit screens in 2024) there is not any probability his movie will fill that 2025 slot. However we’re to see what a person who has wrangled massive franchises and produced fascinating different films will do within the Star Wars universe.

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