Beau Willimon goes from Home of Playing cards to Home of Jedis.
The playwright and screenwriter has been tapped to work the script for Star Wars: Daybreak of the Jedi, Lucasfilm’s function that’s to be directed by James Mangold.
Willimon is becoming a member of Mangold to put in writing the script for the venture that can hint the origins of the Drive and be set 25,000 years earlier than any of the timelines and tales informed by the flicks and exhibits up to now.
Daybreak of the Jedi, which is a working title, was first unveiled virtually precisely one yr in the past, on the final Star Wars Celebration, held in London in April 2023.
“After I first began speaking to Kathy [Kennedy] about doing one among these photos, what occurred to me was fascinated about what sort of style of film inside Star Wars I needed to do,” Mangold mentioned on the time. “And I thought of a Biblical epic, like a Ten Commandments, concerning the dawning of the Drive. The place did the Drive come from, when did we uncover it, when did we discover ways to use it?”
The venture, like most Star Wars initiatives, had been below a Sith shroud of secrecy ever since.
The function has no launch date, however Mangold is anticipated to show his consideration to Daybreak of the Jedi after he wraps A Full Unknown, his Bob Dylan biopic that stars Timothée Chalamet and is being made by Disney arm Searchlight Photos. The following Star Wars film is slated to be The Mandalorian & Grogu, which on Friday obtained a Could 22, 2026 launch date.
Daybreak of the Jedi will not be Willimon’s first time in hyperspace. The scribe labored on season one among Andor, the acclaimed and Emmy-nominated Star Wars collection targeted on the character performed by Diego Luna. Willimon wrote three episodes, together with the jail breakout installment titled “One Means Out.” The episode earned Willimon an Emmy nomination for excellent writing for a drama collection and featured the heartbreaking line “I can’t swim,” uttered by Andy Serkis.
The author is thought for his dramatic prowess and his work options political undertones and offers with themes of energy. Home of Playing cards was set within the halls of Washington D.C. and was one of the crucial acclaimed collection of the mid-2010s, serving to put Netflix on the map as a vacation spot for unique tv. He additionally co-wrote the George Clooney-Ryan Gosling political thriller The Ides of March and created Hulu’s house drama The First.
He’s repped by WME and Schreck Rose.