Taika Waititi says his proposed Star Wars film is 'put on ice' six years after it was announced
Taika Waititi told Inverse that his proposed Star Wars film, announced six years ago, has been “put on ice.”
Since 2019’s The Rise of Skywalker, only one Star Wars film, The Mandalorian and Grogu, has actually made it into cinemas, according to the Guardian. Announcements of a small armada of other projects have kept coming via press releases and corporate gatherings, but those projects have so far failed to reach multiplexes.
The Mandalorian and Grogu cost a reported $165m and brought in $346m worldwide.
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A $346m worldwide gross is not nothing, but The Guardian puts the real problem bluntly: at some point Lucasfilm has to let somebody make one of these films that might go wrong.
The one film that did get made, The Mandalorian and Grogu, still had familiar faces and an established audience, and The Guardian says that did not guarantee the triumphant return people wanted. That suggests the problem is not simply a refusal to take risks.