New Star Wars Film: Taika Waititi tapped to direct and co-write

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Oscar winner Taika Waititi tapped to direct and co-write new 'Star Wars' movie

https://www.usatoday.com/story/ente...rs-taika-waititi-direct-new-movie/3078570001/


Here's one more reason to look forward to getting back to the movie theater: Oscar winner Taika Waititi has been tapped to direct and co-write a new "Star Wars" film.

Disney announced on Monday, May 4, that Waititi, who won the Academy Award for best screenplay for "Jojo Rabbit" and helmed the first season finale of Disney+'s popular "The Mandalorian" series, will write the upcoming movie with Krysty Wilson-Cairns ("1917").

Rumors that Waititi, who also voiced an assassin droid/robotic protector for Baby Yoda (The Child) in "Mandalorian," planned his own "Star Wars" film have been bubbling for several months. In a February interview with Variety, the "Thor: Ragnarok" director said he would love to helm an adventure in the galaxy far, far away "if it was right. I would want to do any kind of movie if it made sense, and if it felt not like career suicide."
 

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Beyond excited about this. Taika is a great director/writer IMO. I can't wait to see what he comes up with. Give this guy a trilogy and forget Rian Johnson.
 

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Beyond excited about this. Taika is a great director/writer IMO. I can't wait to see what he comes up with. Give this guy a trilogy and forget Rian Johnson.

I didn't think Ragnorak was as great as everyone said it was, but I 1,000 echo your sentiment about blowing Rian out the airlock and giving this guy the reins.
 

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I didn't think Ragnorak was as great as everyone said it was, but I 1,000 echo your sentiment about blowing Rian out the airlock and giving this guy the reins.

This, only I'm even more critical of Ragnarok. Then again, I think Jojo Rabbit was best picture this last year.
 
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Huge fan of both Rian Johnson and Taika Waititi.

Excited to see a variety of directors take over Star Wars projects in the future.
 

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I didn't think Ragnorak was as great as everyone said it was, but I 1,000 echo your sentiment about blowing Rian out the airlock and giving this guy the reins.

Disney has gone dead silent about Rian's trilogy. Maybe it's changed but I read an interview where he said he doesn't know where things are at. So who knows? To be fair, as much as I think he screwed up the trilogy (even) impacting the finale I think if you are going to give him a Star Wars movie let him do something original with his own characters.

Having said that I won't shed a tear if they never materialize.
 

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