{"id":931685,"date":"2026-10-17T17:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T17:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/931685\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T17:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T17:24:15","slug":"watts-planned-a-star-wars-western-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/931685\/","title":{"rendered":"Watts Planned A “Star Wars” Western Series?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Before he was hired recently to take the helm of the first entry in the next \u201cStar Wars\u201d film trilogy, it turns out that filmmaker Jon Watts had already spent months working on a secret project for Lucasfilm.<\/p>\n

Watts previously directed the first three Tom Holland-led \u201cSpider-Man\u201d movies for Sony, and more recently he and Christopher Ford served as the creative team and showrunners on the \u201cStar Wars\u201d live-action series \u201cSkeleton Crew\u201d.<\/p>\n

After that series was launched, it turns out the pair stayed at Lucasfilm developing something else, another \u201cStar Wars\u201d TV project that they devoted a good chunk of this year to before recently pivoting to the new film, according to a new report at Knight Edge Media<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The untitled project was reportedly being envisioned as an eight-episode Disney+ series, with a full writers\u2019 room operating from January through August this year. The aim? To deliver a \u201cStar Wars\u201d series with a Western sensibility, much like \u201cSkeleton Crew\u201d was a mix of pirate adventures and the Amblin films.<\/p>\n

Now though? Apparently all has gone quiet on the series, and it\u2019s unclear whether Lucasfilm has shelved the project temporarily or quietly abandoned it altogether. <\/p>\n

It is different from the upcoming trilogy of films that writer Simon Kinberg has been developing on his own for a while, but it only really seemed to gain momentum in the past few weeks.<\/p>\n

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