Mangold outlines Star Wars film timeline, biblical inspirations

Director James Mangold shall be busy with some main properties, formally signing on to helm a brand new Star Wars film.

The Star Wars Celebration has provided loads of main bulletins thus far, not the least of which is a brand new film set to be directed by James Mangold, who’s actually accustomed to main franchises.

Through the occasion, Empire caught up with James Mangold to debate his standalone Star Wars film, which shall be set a very long time in the past–sure, in a galaxy far, distant. Pertaining to the timeframe, Mangold stated, “It takes place 25,000 years earlier than Episode IV, and it’s concerning the discovery of the Drive.” Nevertheless it’s not simply the earlier Star Wars films that influenced Mangold, but in addition biblical epics of the Fifties. “I instructed Kathy [Kennedy, head of Lucasfilm] I needed to make a type of Bible film, a type of Ten Commandments of Star Wars–type of a Cecil B DeMille movie concerning the arrival of the Drive, and that’s what I’ve been pecking away at between press occasions. That’s the thought.”

James Mangold additionally stated that his Star Wars film will be capable to stand by itself however nonetheless owes quite a bit to the franchise’s legacy, saying, “It’s a film that each connects to the worlds we all know, however can be far sufficient away from it that I feel there’s quite a lot of alternatives to inform a narrative freely, additionally…and never be so extremely tied in by the knots and completely different story strands which might be already in place.”

Mangold is without doubt one of the busiest guys in Hollywood proper now. Along with a Star Wars film, James Mangold additionally has the fifth Indiana Jones entry set for a Cannes Movie Pageant debut, writing/directing duties on the Swamp Factor film for the DC Universe and a Bob Dylan biopic within the works. He was as soon as tied to a Buster Keaton biopic, however that appears to have been overtaken by Matt Reeves, who is about to direct Rami Malek because the silent-era comic.

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