While Lucasfilm was busy making the Star Wars sequel trilogy and the off-year prequel one-offs, many new projects went into development. A Rian Johnson trilogy, a trilogy from Game of Thrones co-showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, and even a Kevin Feige Star Wars movie all had various levels of development. But with the fractious reaction to those sequels, especially The Rise of Skywalker, left the franchise in a bit of a strange state. That tension within the fandom would have been the crux of Damon Lindelof’s movie, which would have starred Daisy Ridley’s Rey. Lindelof recently spoke about “the Bantha in the room” on House of R podcast. (h/t: The Playlist.)
“I was fired off of a Star Wars movie,” Lindelof said. “So, they asked me, ‘What do you think a Star Wars movie should be? ‘And I said, ‘Here’s what it should be.’ And they said, ‘Great, you’re hired,’ and then two years later, I was fired. So I was wrong, at least through that time.”
“What we were attempting to do was to have this conversation in the movie,” Lindelof went on. “Which is to say there is a force of nostalgia and there is a force of revision and they are at odds with one another. And let’s do the Protestant Reformation inside Star Wars.”
That is a particularly lofty (Lidelofty?) aspiration for a movie that comes right after a deeply contentious trilogy. But that really does get to the heart of the matter, doesn’t it? What is the Star Wars franchise now? Is it something only for the deepest, most “in-it” fans, or should it be for new viewers to discover along with the true bluers? But maybe attacking that existential conundrum head-on was not what Lucasfilm had in mind.
“And it didn’t work,” he admitted candidly about the screenplay they were working on. “And so you get —you have your cake and eat it too, but the conversation that the fandom is having without winking and looking at the audience…that didn’t necessarily feel that risky.”
“I may have been fired not just because they seemed to like the premise,” he said. “It was just that the writing was really hard. It was slow. Like the tone, getting it right, where it was inside of the canon, what its relationship was with to episode nine. Is it starting a new trilogy? Is it like all of those things? They’re so massive. They’re so big.”
Kyle Anderson is the Senior Editor for Nerdist. He hosts the weekly pop culture deep-dive podcast Laser Focus. You can find his film and TV reviews here. Follow him on Letterboxd.
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