Only a month after he stepped away from the forthcoming Fantastic Four MCU project and fresh off the $1.893 billion webbed in by his trilogy ending Spider-Man: No Way Home, director Jon Watts is heading into the multiverse and aiming for the Star Wars galaxy where he will helm the project known only as Grammar Rodeo, mooted to be a coming of age story set after Return of the Jedi.
The Spider-Man trilogy director has created and will helm a new Star Wars series for Disney+, Vanity Fair reported in a Tuesday cover story about the sci-fi franchise’s upcoming offerings on the small screen.
Still mostly under wraps, Watts’ series — “code name: Grammar Rodeo, a reference to an episode of The Simpsons in which Bart and his schoolmates steal a car and run away for a week” — was described in Vanity Fair as in the tone of a classic Amblin coming-of-age adventure film of the ’80s. Watts’ show will take place closely after the events of Return of the Jedi, much the same way as The Mandalorian, as far as time period.
Watts will executive produce the series along with writer Chris Ford, who penned Spider-Man: Homecoming.
[lasso box=”B0002YCUR0″ ref=”amzn-star-wars-ewok-adventures-caravan-of-courage-the-battle-for-endor” id=”169449″ link_id=”41629″]