{"id":451274,"date":"2026-05-20T14:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/451274\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T14:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:19:09","slug":"damon-lindelof-reveals-what-his-cancelled-star-wars-movie-was-about-how-it-wouldve-changed-the-force-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/451274\/","title":{"rendered":"Damon Lindelof Reveals What His Cancelled Star Wars Movie Was About & How It Would’ve Changed the Force Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"

Star Wars<\/a> is finally returning to the big screen, but Damon Lindelof finally reveals what his cancelled movie would have been about. The future of Star Wars has been in limbo since 2019\u2019s The Rise of Skywalker, with Lucasfilm struggling to figure out how to move on from the sequel trilogy. Disney nixed Adam Driver and Steven Soderbergh\u2019s The Hunt for Ben Solo<\/a>, and attention shifted to Daisy Ridley\u2019s Rey. Her \u201cNew Jedi Order\u201d movie has been in limbo, and now Damon Lindelof \u2013 who worked on one version \u2013 has opened up about the script he was working on before he was let go in early 2023.<\/p>\n

Speaking on The Ringer-Verse<\/a> podcast, Lindelof explained that his story would have reimagined the light and dark sides of the Force. The script would have been \u201cthe Protestant Reformation inside Star Wars,\u201d a meta story that reflected debates in the fandom itself. \u201cThere is a Force of nostalgia,\u201d he explained, \u201cand there is a Force of revision, and they are at odds with one another.\u201d It\u2019s a conscious response to reactions to the sequel, where some elements of the fandom resisted moving on to the new \u201ccenter of Star Wars\u201d \u2013 Rey, Finn, and Poe.<\/p>\n

Lucasfilm apparently liked the premise, but Lindelof admits the writing was slow work. \u201cThe writing was really hard,\u201d he said. \u201cGetting the tone right, where it was inside the canon, what its relationship was with Episode IX, is it starting a new trilogy, all of those things\u2026 It\u2019s the old tanker equation, where you turn the wheel and it takes five minutes before it turns.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lindelof\u2019s Story is What Star Wars Needs<\/p>\n

\"ReyImage Courtesy of LucasFilm<\/p>\n

Lindelof has identified the contradiction at the heart of Star Wars. On the one hand, this franchise needs to push forward and do something new; Star Wars has overplayed the nostalgia card since The Force Awakens, and it\u2019s had a catastrophic effect on the franchise as a whole. The problem, though, is that elements of the fanbase do not want to allow any progression; we saw that with the overdone backlash against The Acolyte<\/a>, but it\u2019s always been there. Back in 1999, the prequel trilogy divided the fandom in much the same way the sequels have now. Star Wars is a generational saga, but every generation resists letting go \u2013 a very Anakin Skywalker problem.<\/p>\n

Lindelof\u2019s idea sounds absolutely fascinating, because it makes the conflict between nostalgia and revision far more explicit. It\u2019s tempting to assume he\u2019s making a straightforward parallel \u2013 nostalgia as the dark side, revision as the light \u2013 but that feels like too simplistic an interpretation. The more likely scenario is that the dark side would have been present in both movements, and that the film was about how we interpret the past and look towards the future. All in all, this is an essential debate Star Wars desperately needs to happen (especially in light of The Mandalorian and Grogu<\/a>, where reviews suggest Lucasfilm has gone for a much \u201csafer\u201d approach that isn\u2019t resonating with critics at all).<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t to say Lindelof\u2019s ideas were necessarily the right ones. Lindelof\u2019s original pitch was decades after The Rise of Skywalker, and he daydreamed of Helen Mirren playing an older Rey. That would have wasted Daisy Ridley, whose Star Wars return was announced at Celebration 2023 (and still hasn\u2019t happened, because the tanker is still moving so slowly). But the basic idea sounds essential for Star Wars, because this is a debate the franchise desperately needs to have \u2013 simply because, right now, an overdose of nostalgia is doing massive damage.<\/p>\n

What do you think? Leave a comment below and\u00a0join the conversation now in the\u00a0ComicBook Forum<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Star Wars is finally returning to the big screen, but Damon Lindelof finally reveals what his cancelled movie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[146,85,46,397,53913,6377,210946],"class_list":["post-451274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-movies","tag-regular-news","tag-star-wars","tag-star-wars-new-jedi-order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}