
This man will make a Star War.
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Taika Waititi is diving back into a galaxy far, far away to direct and co-write a Star Wars movie, Lucasfilm revealed in May the 4th surprise. He rose to pop culture fame when he helmed 2017 Marvel Cinematic Universe movie Thor: Ragnarok, and directed the season 1 finale of The Mandalorian last year.
Waititi also played deadly assassin droid IG-11 in the show, as well as Korg in the MCU, so expect him to show up (likely as a CGI robot or alien) in his Star Wars movie as well. Krysty Wilson-Cairns, who co-wrote Sam Mendes‘ 1917 last year, will write the screenplay with Waititi.
It isn’t the only project Waititi’s working on for Lucasfilm-owner Disney — he revealed last month that he’s about four or five script drafts into Thor: Love and Thunder.
The company also confirmed that Leslye Headland, who co-created Russian Doll on Netflix, will write, executive produce and serve as showrunner on a new Star Wars show for Disney Plus,as reported in Variety last month.
Neither Waititi’s movie nor Headland’s show have release dates yet.