Yesterday, we learnt that Damon Lindelof was co-writing a Star Wars script that will be directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, and just hours later we learn via THR that Lindelof is writing the new script with Justin Britt-Gibson set after the events of The Rise of Skywalker, also Dave Filoni may have been involved in crafting the story.
Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that Lindelof is writing the new Star Wars script with Justin Britt-Gibson, a young and rising writer who worked as an executive story editor on Guillermo del Toro’s vampire drama, The Strain, and wrote episodes of Starz’s The Counterpart, a series that deals with parallel dimensions and starred J.K. Simmons.
Britt-Gibson, however, comes to the job after a secret (it’s always secret with Star Wars, isn’t it?) writers room that began coming together after this year’s Star Wars Celebration. The room held a two-week session in July and at the table were Patrick Somerville, who worked with Lindelof on Leftovers and then went on to create the buzzy Station Eleven; Rayna McClendon, a consulting producer on Lucasfilm’s own Obi-Wan Kenobi and writer on the company’s upcoming Willow series; and Andy Greenwald, the creator of the 2019 Rosario Dawson crime drama Briarpatch (on which McClendon was a story editor), among a couple of other writers.
Dave Filoni, a protégé of Star Wars creator George Lucas who is involved in many of the shows, may have also been present.
After breaking the story, Lindelof and Britt-Gibson have been clacking away at the keyboards.
Sources say the movie project is intended as a stand-alone but in success could lead to more movies. That plan goes against the grain of earlier Lucasfilm development process’, which saw the company try to come up with new trilogies. Now, the studio seems to focus on stand-alones.
And sources say that the story would take place after the events of 2019’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, although it would not be a continuation of the Skywalker saga. It could, however, feature some of the characters from the Star Wars trilogy made in the 2010s.
There are currently two Star Wars films on the Disney schedule, slated for December 2025 and December 2027, the first of which is expected to be the Taika Waititi film. We hope to get some clarification on what we expect to see on the big screen in due course, but for now take this rumour with a pinch of salt until it is confirmed by Disney/Lucasfilm.
