A few days ago the news broke that Jon Watts, the director of the new Spider-man trilogy, was leaving the Baxter Building and delegated the direction of ‘The Fantastic Four’. Many of us believed that he would now dedicate himself to doing perhaps a more personal projectbut today Disney has announced that he will be in charge of directing a new series of ‘Star wars’ which will attempt to bring a ‘The Goonies’ vibe to a galaxy far, far away.
Jedi never say dead
Once again, we are located after ‘Return of the Jedi’ and before ‘The Force Awakens’. the empire has fallenthe galaxy is rebuilding itself from its ashes… And the only thing we know about the project is that they are looking for four children between eleven and twelve years old and that in Lucasfilm it has been described as a galactic version of the Amblin films of the 80s.
Do you remember that episode of ‘The Simpsons’ in which Bart, Nelson, Milhouse and Martin make an American road trip with a car with the excuse of going to the Grammar Roundup? Well, that is the title with which the series is being prepared, to avoid onlookers: ‘Grammar rodeo’. At the moment, the references are carefully fucked.
Kathleen Kennedy says in a wonderful Vanity Fair report that there is a roadmap for the future from ‘Star wars’: a Taika Waititi film followed by Patty Jenkins’ ‘Rogue Squadron’, which many of us thought we saw abandoned a few months ago. And the Rian Johnson trilogy? Well, well, we’ll see when I finish with the ‘Daggers in the back’.
At the moment we have the promise (and the challenge) that the new generations will also have their place on Tatooine. Prepare your lightsaber and mount the nearest X-Wing: the trip is going to be long.