Star Wars: James Mangold announces good news for his future film

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It's been several years since the Star Wars license seemed to be looking for a direction to take. After a Skywalker trilogy which divided the public, then numerous series Disney+ which only deepened this feeling of dispersion even further, Lucasfilm nevertheless wants to continue the adventure launched in 1977.

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Among the upcoming projects in the famous galaxy far, far away, the film Dawn of the Jedi (Or Dawn of the Jedi in French) by James Mangold will attempt to apply in a slightly more radical way the recipe unsuccessfully attempted by the series The Acolyte : a leap back many years compared to the Skywalker saga, to better distance ourselves from it.

Emancipate yourself from the legacy of Star Wars to better enrich it

To the media MovieWebthe director of Logan, Indiana Jones and the Clock of Destiny and more recently A complete strangerdeclared:

The film will take place 25,000 years before all known Star Wars films. It's an area and a playground that I've always wanted to explore and that inspired me when I was a teenager. I don't want to be handcuffed by a story so vast that it becomes almost immovable, and you can't please anyone.

James Mangold

This statement is in line with another from last year, where he said in an interview that he did not want to join the MCU (the Marvel Cinematic Universe) because he was not interested in building multi-universes. -movies weighed down by previous stories, references and canon. For him, it is the enemy of narrative art and emotion.

An original and epic story

Due to his age, Mangold is not referring to the comics here. Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi from Dark Horse Comics, published from 2012. His feature film, which should not be inspired by it, will nevertheless be centered on the origin of the Force and the very beginning of the Jedi. According to previous statements by the man, his work will thus have an epic and biblical tone like The Ten Commandments.

Remember that screenwriter Beau Willimon (House of Cards, Andor) is working with Mangold on the script for Dawn of the Jedi. If the project comes to fruition (many Star Wars projects have been abandoned during development), see you in a few years to see the result!

Where to watch the films Star Wars streaming?

From the first opus in 1977 to the recent episode IX, including Rogue One And Soloall of the films in the saga are available on Disney+ in France.

The distribution of cinema films on streaming platforms is governed in France by media chronology. Each broadcast mode (television, on-demand or subscription streaming, etc.) has a dedicated operating window.

Here are the deadlines from the current media timeline:

DVD/Blu-ray/VOD: four months (three months if the film has had fewer than 100,000 admissions)
Canal+/OCS: six months after the cinema release of a film (instead of eight months)
Netflix: 15 months after release (instead of 36 months)
Disney+, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+…: 17 months after release (instead of 36 months)
TF1, M6, France Télévisions, Arte: 22 months after release, and broadcast exclusivity for up to 36 months