With the next big screen adventure helmed by Taika Waititi, due to arrive 23rd December 2023 – an unlikely date almost certain to change – the original home of the Star Wars story will be the venue for something fresh, bold and original, a direction the Oscar-winning director feels is essential for Star Wars storytelling not to run into a cul-de-sac of boxed-in stories ever-conscious of tripping over long-established continuity.
“Look, I think for the Star Wars universe to expand, it has to expand,” he tells us. “I don’t think that I’m any use in the Star Wars universe making a film where everyone’s like, ‘Oh great, well that’s the blueprints to the Millennium Falcon, ah that’s Chewbacca’s grandmother.’ That all stands alone, that’s great, though I would like to take something new and create some new characters and just expand the world, otherwise it feels like it’s a very small story.”
Clearly Taika is looking to carve his own area of the GFFA and craft a story imbued with Star Wars-ness but one unhindered by continuity and prior knowledge. For the wider Star Wars galaxy to continue to grow and prosper – in concert with tales connected to familiar characters – this could well be the golden ticket to seeing adventures from the Star Wars galaxy grow and succeed for many years to come.
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