Part of a larger interview that delves deep into the motivations and hopes of taking the helm of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny from Steven Spielberg, director James Mangold touched on a number of relevant subjects including one of his forthcoming projects, a Star Wars epic focusing on the earliest days of the relationship between the Force and those who wield it.
With “Star Wars,” Mangold had “more than flirted” years earlier with making a Boba Fett movie that would have been a one-off spaghetti Western in the vein of Sergio Leone. (Lucasfilm turned it into the Disney+ series “The Book of Boba Fett” instead.) So while in production on “The Dial of Destiny,” Kennedy asked him if he was still interested in exploring a galaxy far, far away. “I said, ‘Yes, but it seems like everything you’re developing is continuing forward,’” he says. He pitched “a ‘Ten Commandments’ about the dawning of the Force,” he says. “It is basically, for fans, a kind of religion. What is it to have found this power and not even understand what it is?” Kennedy pounced.
“Jim’s pretty fast — he’s already got the basic treatment laid out in his head,” she says. Once the writers strike is over, she adds, “He has every intention of wanting to move this forward very aggressively, and we want to support that.”
Fantha Tracks were fortunate enough to see Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny last night, and the first of our reviews of the film will be here on the site shortly, as well as a special Reaction Chat episode of Making Tracks over at Fantha Tracks Radio.
