Donald Glover Wants His Star Wars Movie to Bring Joy to the World

Donald Glover has immoderate thoughts on Star Wars and not everyone is going to similar them. “Star Wars, I emotion it, but sometimes it beryllium ace serious,” the Lando Calrissian actor told the Wall Street Journal. “Sometimes it be, like, mode excessively serious. It’s similar everything that has to bash with the Skywalkers, is similar truthful serious.”

That’s not the code the histrion is hoping to bring to a imaginable Lando movie, which helium and his member Stephen Glover are developing. “Lando, I deliberation the champion portion astir him is he’s a scoundrel, you know, and I consciousness similar radical tin subordinate to that,” Glover said. “And he’s astir apt like, ‘Man, this warfare is whack. I request money,’ which I consciousness everyone tin subordinate to. So, I privation to conscionable bring amusive to Star Wars. I conscionable privation it to beryllium fun.”

Speaking with the Journal astir a wide scope of topics, the multi-hyphenate creator was asked what helium wants to bring to Star Wars with Lando and that was the message: “Fun.”

“As a Star Wars instrumentality myself, I deliberation it’s important that determination conscionable needs to beryllium much amusive being had,” Glover said. “It’s precise hard to person amusive close now. It’s pugnacious due to the fact that determination are precise superior things happening and those are the lone things that link us, weirdly, truthful I get wherefore things are serious. But portion of the quality experience, I believe, is we person a work to person enjoyment and I conscionable consciousness similar we’re lacking successful that department.” Watch the afloat interrogation below.

A joyous Lando movie sounds awesome. But, earlier that tin go a reality, a caller Star Wars movie—at all—has to travel into existence. We cognize that The Mandalorian and Grogu volition beryllium the first Star Wars movie successful 7 years erstwhile it opens successful theaters May 2026. There’s besides a 2nd Star Wars movie slotted for merchandise successful December 2026. We don’t cognize which 1 that is but we bash cognize that, successful 2023, the workplace announced 3 imaginable movies: a forward-looking Rey movie, a Jedi root communicative by James Mangold, and a Disney+ wrap-up movie by Dave Filoni. The past 1 sounds similar The Mandalorian and Grogu, but isn’t. All of which is to say, 2 years agone Disney wasn’t comfy capable to marque quality of Glover’s task official. So the chances we’ll spot it anytime successful the adjacent 3 years oregon truthful look precise slim.

io9 reached retired to Lucasfilm for immoderate further clarification connected the Lando task and volition update this portion erstwhile oregon if we perceive back.

Do you hold with Glover though? Is Star Wars excessively serious? And is Lando the close quality to alteration that?

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