{"id":797983,"date":"2026-10-10T10:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T10:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/797983\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T10:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T10:18:13","slug":"star-wars-dawn-of-the-jedi-still-on-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/797983\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi&#8221; Still On Hold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/star-wars-dawn-of-the-jedi-still-on-hold.jpg\" data-caption=\"Lucasfilm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/star-wars-dawn-of-the-jedi-still-on-hold.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"star-wars-dawn-of-the-jedi-still-on-hold\"\/><\/a>Lucasfilm<\/p>\n<p>A new report at <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/every-upcoming-star-wars-movie-and-tv-show-12160329\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EW<\/a> on \u201cStar Wars,\u201d ahead of the franchise\u2019s 50th anniversary, says James Mangold\u2019s project has officially been put on hold.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cLogan\u201d and \u201cIndiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny\u201d director was originally brought onto the franchise for a scrapped Boba Fett movie around a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>Then, at Star Wars Celebration 2023, Lucasfilm announced that Mangold is would direct a film set many millennia before the prequels and would explore the origins of the Jedi and the Force.<\/p>\n<p>Mangold said at the time it was a \u201cBen-Hur or The Ten Commandments about the birth of the Force\u201d type project exploring questions like who was the first Jedi.<\/p>\n<p>When Kathleen Kennedy exited Lucasfilm back in January, she said Mangold and his writing partner Beau Willimon (\u201cAndor,\u201d \u201cHouse of Cards\u201d) had written \u201can incredible script\u201d but \u201cit is definitely breaking the mold\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>At the time the project was on hold and the new update confirms that\u2019s still the case, while Mangold signed an overall deal with Paramount in 2025 that is still very much in play.  The recent Skydance acquisition of Warners could reignite interest in his proposed \u201cSwamp Thing\u201d movie at DC Studios.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly the article also confirms that both the Lando Calrissian movie with Donald Glover, the George Nolfi-penned Rey standalone film, and even Taika Waititi\u2019s film remain \u2018in development\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lucasfilm A new report at EW on \u201cStar Wars,\u201d ahead of the franchise\u2019s 50th anniversary, says James Mangold\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[94966,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-797983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}