Hollywood News: Star Wars Screenwriters Exit Only Days After Delivering Their Script

[playahaitian]

Star Wars Screenwriters Exit Only Days After Delivering Their Script

Damon Lindelof and Justin Britt-Gibson are no longer working with Star Wars after handing in a script for Ms. Marvel 's Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy's untitled movie.

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Star Wars Screenwriters Exit Only Days After Delivering Their Script
Damon Lindelof and Justin Britt-Gibson are no longer working with Star Wars after handing in a script for Ms. Marvel's Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy's untitled movie.
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Linda Codega




Late last night, Above the Line reported that screenwriters Damon Lindelof (Watchmen, The Leftovers) and Justin Britt-Gibson are no longer attached to the Star Wars universe. They were originally tied to an untitled Star Wars project alongside Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. Obaid-Chinoy is an Emmy and Oscar winning documentarian who recently gained more fiction credits when she directed two episodes of Ms. Marvel.

This news comes almost immediately after Lindelof’s musings at SXSW where he said to Slashfilm, “the degree of difficulty is extremely, extremely, extremely high” when it comes to creating a film for Star Wars. Lindelof went on to say that “If it can’t be great, it shouldn’t exist... I think it’s possible that sometimes when you hold something in such high reverence and esteem, you start to get in the kitchen and you just go, ‘Maybe I shouldn’t be cooking. Maybe I should just be eating.’ We’ll just leave it at that point.”



Deadline had previously reported that Lindelof was one of the reasons that Lucasfilm brought a director onto the project early. Sources say that both parties wanted the director’s vision to be reflected in the script from early development. Above the Line reports that Lindelof and Britt-Gibson finished a draft of the script and exited the picture only a few days later. Production is not meant to start until early 2024, and the release date is slated for Dec 19, 2025.

 

[geechiedan]

toxic fanboy expectations are taking has taken the fun out of movies.

 

[geechiedan]

comment from an yahoo op-ed

Honestly, the biggest problem with Star Wars is that it's kind've dumb. It was never meant to be a world-building epic. Lucas ripped off a Kurasawa film in order to make a killer popcorn action flick, which he did. It honestly should have ended with the first film because once you start trying to build it out the whole thing becomes increasingly silly. Empire and Jedi were surprisingly good films built to capitalize on the success of the first film, but even then the stitches were starting to show. By the third film they'd already resorted to the rebels having to blow up yet another Death Star, the dialogue was getting worse, and the Ewoks kind've showed how silly this could get. And yet, it kind've worked because it was still just one story. Going beyond that shows how thin the premise was to begin with and has resulted in 8 (or is it more at this point?) films that range from alright to just plain bad. At this point it's just an endless milking of a tired piece of IP.


can't say i disgree with this completely..

 

[knightmelodic]

comment from an yahoo op-ed

Honestly, the biggest problem with Star Wars is that it's kind've dumb. It was never meant to be a world-building epic. Lucas ripped off a Kurasawa film in order to make a killer popcorn action flick, which he did. It honestly should have ended with the first film because once you start trying to build it out the whole thing becomes increasingly silly. Empire and Jedi were surprisingly good films built to capitalize on the success of the first film, but even then the stitches were starting to show. By the third film they'd already resorted to the rebels having to blow up yet another Death Star, the dialogue was getting worse, and the Ewoks kind've showed how silly this could get. And yet, it kind've worked because it was still just one story. Going beyond that shows how thin the premise was to begin with and has resulted in 8 (or is it more at this point?) films that range from alright to just plain bad. At this point it's just an endless milking of a tired piece of IP.


can't say i disgree with this completely..

This is right on point except it wasn't only Kurasawa he ripped off. A minor point admittedly.

 

[playahaitian]

comment from an yahoo op-ed

Honestly, the biggest problem with Star Wars is that it's kind've dumb. It was never meant to be a world-building epic. Lucas ripped off a Kurasawa film in order to make a killer popcorn action flick, which he did. It honestly should have ended with the first film because once you start trying to build it out the whole thing becomes increasingly silly. Empire and Jedi were surprisingly good films built to capitalize on the success of the first film, but even then the stitches were starting to show. By the third film they'd already resorted to the rebels having to blow up yet another Death Star, the dialogue was getting worse, and the Ewoks kind've showed how silly this could get. And yet, it kind've worked because it was still just one story. Going beyond that shows how thin the premise was to begin with and has resulted in 8 (or is it more at this point?) films that range from alright to just plain bad. At this point it's just an endless milking of a tired piece of IP.


can't say i disgree with this completely..

I disagree

The brilliance of the comics, novels and animated series proves that

 

[geechiedan]

I disagree

The brilliance of the comics, novels and animated series proves that

too bad they dont use any of them for the movies

 

[D'Evils]

I disagree

The brilliance of the comics, novels and animated series proves that

This... If the Last of Us has taught us anything is that if the source material is handed correctly it works...

Disney should revisit the idea of making the Comics, Novels and Video Games cannon... Why hire all these "Acclaimed writers" when the stories are already written...

 

[playahaitian]

too bad they dont use any of them for the movies

But I don't understand the point here

What you posted this person implies the first movie the blueprint the Bible is just weak derivative and unable to hold up the mythology

That is a ridiculous argument that doesn't even really merit any discussion

That has NOTHING to do with if the recent movies were good or not that's about mismanagement not STAR WARS itself.

Especially when empire is one of the greatest movies ever

Yeah I don't understand why anything they wrote makes any type of sense to anyone.

 

[ThaBurgerPimp]

Disney should revisit the idea of making the Comics, Novels and Video Games cannon...

The Expanded Universe/Legends canon was ideal for a sequel trilogy...

 

[305]

This is right on point except it wasn't only Kurasawa he ripped off. A minor point admittedly.

what movie did he steal from?

 

[tallblacknyc]

Don’t lie everybody really wants to see the ultimate Jedi movie with non stop action with lightsaber fighting and martial arts.. basically raid redemption with light sabres.. we never got this..make it happen Star Wars

 

[playahaitian]

what movie did he steal from?

They always say he stole from those old black and white serials, plus dune. I think the specific flick is hidden fortress? Don't quote me.

But to me you can really do that with anything. All great work is derived from something. Every roman and Greek myth has influenced every bit of modern writing. And add the Bible and Shakespeare.

What's left?

 

[godofwine]

comment from an yahoo op-ed

Honestly, the biggest problem with Star Wars is that it's kind've dumb. It was never meant to be a world-building epic. Lucas ripped off a Kurasawa film in order to make a killer popcorn action flick, which he did. It honestly should have ended with the first film because once you start trying to build it out the whole thing becomes increasingly silly. Empire and Jedi were surprisingly good films built to capitalize on the success of the first film, but even then the stitches were starting to show. By the third film they'd already resorted to the rebels having to blow up yet another Death Star, the dialogue was getting worse, and the Ewoks kind've showed how silly this could get. And yet, it kind've worked because it was still just one story. Going beyond that shows how thin the premise was to begin with and has resulted in 8 (or is it more at this point?) films that range from alright to just plain bad. At this point it's just an endless milking of a tired piece of IP.


can't say i disgree with this completely..

This is right on point except it wasn't only Kurasawa he ripped off. A minor point admittedly.

It was just repetitive as fuck and the writing was lame. They could have expounded upon the idea but they're thinking was "Let's just do as little as possible. It'll work itself out." And it didn't

The microwaved powers from the second to last movie or maybe the third the last movie I don't think I watched the last two.

 

[ViCiouS]