New Updates For Taika Waititi and Shawn Levy's Upcoming STAR WARS Movies — GeekTyrant
Waititi's mysterious Star Wars project has been in development limbo since it was first announced five years ago. Now, it finally has a working title: Cosmic Doom . The production will reportedly go by the name Ghost Truck 6 , according to Nexus Point News.
Details about the plot are still under tight wraps, but Waititi is set to direct from a script written by Oscar-nominated screenwriter Tony McNamara ( The Favourite , Poor Things ).
Despite the delays, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy remains optimistic about the project and is allowing Waititi full creative breathing room.
'Taika is on Taika time. I've just continually said to him, look, when you feel that you're ready and you can really devote the time, we're going to do it. We'll be waiting. I'm just hoping we get there. That will be a great Star Wars movie.'
Waititi previously talked about the project, saying:
"I've been developing [the Star Wars film] for a few years, but I think with any film, but that one in particular, it's something I'd really like to get right, so I don't want to rush it. It's going to bubble along on the side."
"I wanna capture that joy and entertainment of those early ones like The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi and all those ones, so I'm trying to figure that out. It'll happen."
The director also came out and said: "It will be...dramatic pause...a Taika Waititi film. It's gonna piss people off."
Waititi has explained that he's looking to create something new with the franchise and expand the universe beyond all of the characters and locations that we're familiar with.
While Waititi's film still doesn't have a release date, Shawn Levy's Star Wars: Starfighter is much further along. The studio is targeting a production start this September in London with filming expected to wrap in December. The movie, starring Ryan Gosling and Mia Goth, is set for a theatrical release on May 28, 2027.
Initially developed under the working title Kyber Mist with the production name Blue Mist Productions , Starfighter is described as a standalone story set five years after the events of The Rise of Skywalker . According to the studio, the film 'is an entirely new adventure featuring all-new characters set in a period of time that has not been explored on screen yet.'
With both films promising fresh characters and timelines outside the main Skywalker saga, these updates mark a hopeful shift for Star Wars storytelling on the big screen.
It's been a quiet stretch for the franchise theatrically, but things are starting to look more active on the hyperspace horizon.
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