Damon Lindelof, one of the writers lost, watchmanupcoming lantern, And much more, was recently at House of R to talk about this week The Mandalorian and Grogu as well as star wars As a whole. Eventually, Lindelof felt the need to address “the bantha in the room”, which was the fact that he was fired from a star wars Movies. That film, which was directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, was believed to be an early iteration of the Rey-centric New Jedi Order story following the events of the series. The Rise of Skywalker.
“He asked me, ‘What do you think? star wars Should there be a film? And I said, ‘This is what should happen.’ And they said, ‘Great, you’re hired.’ And then two years later, I was fired. And so I was wrong. At least through that prism, Lindelof said. What we were trying to do, my partners Justin Britt-Gibson and Rena McClendon and I, was to have this conversation [that he was currently having on the podcast] In the film, that means there’s the power of nostalgia and there’s the power of revisionism and they’re at odds with each other and let’s have the Protestant Reformation in star wars And it didn’t work. […] “Fans who are talking without blinking and looking at the audience… that doesn’t necessarily seem as risky.”
The issue, according to Lindelof, is that there was no clear vision of the film’s purpose, which slowed things down significantly. So he thinks it has more to do with his firing than anything else.
“I would have been fired up, they liked the premise, just the writing was really hard. It was slow. The tone. Getting it right. Where was it inside the canon? What did it have to do with Episode IX? Is it starting a new trilogy? All those things. They’re too big. They’re too big. It’s like the tanker equation in which you turn the wheel and it takes 5 minutes to turn it a little bit like this,” he said.
Lindelof said the difficulty at this stage, in the world after Episode IXHe’s searching for what he calls “the center.” star wars. “When Episode VII came out, we all knew what it was,” he said. “It was Rey and it was Finn and it was Poe and then we were coming back and there was Luke and Leia and Han and Chewie and all those guys. But we understood that, when this new trilogy was finished, we were going to launch with these new characters, and that was the center of it. Star Wars. Mando and Grogu are at the center of the new question star wars?”
We can’t answer that question, at least not until next week, and fans vote with their wallets. Plus, Lindelof and the Ringer discuss this even more on the team podcast (which you can watch below). But it means a lot. There is no center now. Is it Mando and Grogu? Is it Ryan Gosling? Is it still Rey, Finn and Poe? Those decisions have still to be made. And as long as they are, star wars Fans—including Damon Lindelof—are trying to figure out.
Check out the full podcast below. The above quotes come in around minute 45.
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