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— the director behind the new movie — has all but confirmed the fuzzy matriarch won’t be making an appearance in the new flick, which instead will focus on a totally new cast of characters.
“Look, I think for the universe to expand, it has to expand,” Waititi said in a recent interview with
“I don’t think that I’m any use in the universe making a film where everyone’s like, ‘Oh great, well that’s the blueprints to the Millennium Falcon, ah that’s Chewbacca’s grandmother.’
“That all stands alone, that’s great, though I would like to take something new and create some new characters and just expand the world, otherwise it feels like it’s a very small story.”
For someone whose only foray into the franchise has been getting hooked on , a style movie that unpacks Chewbacca’s family tree sounds, frankly, adorable.
But I am also clearly not the target market for this new flick, so what the hell do I know? Get back to me when there’s a sequel in the works.
For true fans, Waititi’s comments aren’t much of a mic-drop moment, seeing as Lucasfilm President recently told the production company was “drawing to a close on the saga that George [Lucas] had created,” and it was “moving into the future of storytelling in the universe.”
But if you’re chomping at the bit for new lore from a galaxy far, far away, it may be a while until you can, à la , go see a .
Last month, Kennedy told the new movie’s release date hasn’t been set in stone but it could be on the cards for late 2023.
As for the stans, we may need to wait a tad longer to find out if a new game is on the horizon. I’m aching to hear the new characters mumble and grunt as they swing their pixelated lightsabers around.
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