Fresh off their Academy Award win for Everything Everywhere All At Once, directing duo Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert have lined up their next directing gig, and it’s one in a galaxy far, far away. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Daniels will be directing an upcoming episode of the new original Star Wars live-action series, Skeleton Crew.
Since The Rise of Skywalker came out, Lucasfilm has been back at the Star Wars drawing board and having a complicated time pushing out the next phase of the franchise on the big screen.
Since Episode IX came out, two films have been officially announced by the studio — Taika Waititi’s untitled film, which he will be co-writing and directing, and Rogue Squadron, which Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins was once confirmed to be co-writing and directing too. They joined in the broad slate a previously-announced film by Alan Horn in late September 2019 which would be produced by Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige. This week we received an update on all three of these films via a meaty report by Variety.
We review and discuss Chapter 18 of The Mandalorian, currently available to stream on Disney Plus; written by Jon Favreau and directed by Rachel Morrison.
