{"id":683336,"date":"2026-05-21T03:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T03:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/683336\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T03:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T03:28:11","slug":"lindelof-talks-being-fired-from-star-wars-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/683336\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindelof Talks Being Fired From “Star Wars” Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Lucasfilm<\/p>\n

\u201cLost\u201d and \u201cWatchmen\u201d series co-creator Damon Lindelof has gone into detail about why he was fired from a \u201cStar Wars\u201d movie and gone into detail about what the film would\u2019ve covered.<\/p>\n

Lindelof was announced as a writer on a new \u201cStar Wars\u201d movie in 2022, teaming with writers Justin Britt-Gibson (\u201cLanterns\u201d) and Rayna McClendon (\u201cBriarpatch,\u201d \u201cWillow\u201d) to develop the script. The plan was for a film that would come after the events of \u201cStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker\u201d. <\/p>\n

Within about a year, it was revealed that he had left the project. This week, Lindelof guest-starred on an episode of The Ringer\u2019s House of R<\/a> podcast and confirmed he was \u201cfired off of a \u2018Star Wars\u2019 movie\u201d. <\/p>\n

He explained the situation and what the goal of the project would\u2019ve been which deals with a real problem the franchises faces within its fandom \u2013 the battle between nostalgia and breaking new ground:<\/p>\n

\u201cI was fired off of a \u2018Star Wars\u2019 movie. They asked me, \u2018What do you think a \u201cStar Wars\u201d movie should be?\u2019 And I said, \u2018Here\u2019s what it should be.\u2019 And they said, \u2018Great, you\u2019re hired.\u2019 And then two years later, I was fired. And so I was wrong, at least through that prism.<\/p>\n

But what we were attempting to do, my partner Justin Britt-Gibson, Rayna McClendon and I, what we were attempting to do was to have this conversation in the movie, 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\u2019s do the Protestant Reformation inside \u2018Star Wars,\u2019 and it didn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n

You have your cake and eat it too. The conversation that the fandom is having, without winking and looking at the audience, that didn\u2019t feel necessarily that risky.\u201d<\/p>\n

He goes on to say that figuring out how to make his story connect to the existing universe was incredibly difficult:<\/p>\n

\u201cI may have been fired not just because they seemed to like the premise. 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 to Episode IX. Is it starting a new trilogy? Is it like all of those things? They\u2019re so massive. They\u2019re so big. It\u2019s sort of a tanker equation, which is you turn the wheel and it takes five minutes before it turns a little bit like this.<\/p>\n

When Episode VII came out, we all knew what it was Rey and it was Finn and it was Poe and then we were migrating back in and Luke and Leia and Han and Chewy and all those guys. But we got the sense that, when this new trilogy was over, we were going to be launching with these new characters, and that was the center of \u2018Star Wars.\u2019 The new question is are Mando and Grogu the center of \u2018Star Wars\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n

When Lindelof exited, Steven Knight later came aboard to write a version for director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, with that version being formally announced at Star Wars Celebration Europe 2023 with Daisy Ridley returning as Rey.<\/p>\n

Knight later left the project as well, and at present it\u2019s not clear if the film will move forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lucasfilm \u201cLost\u201d and \u201cWatchmen\u201d series co-creator Damon Lindelof has gone into detail about why he was fired from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[112110,49,48,75,337],"class_list":["post-683336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bigslider","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}