Donald Glover has become one of those artist when , if his name is attach , you expect a sure degree of tone . From his euphony to his showAtlanta , to even his new seriesMr . and Mrs. Smith , Glover never find like he ’s working for a payroll check . He ’s working to be originative and interesting , and because he thinks the end product will be worth it .
Which , honestly , is why it was such a surprisal to hear thathe and his brother Stephen had take the reinsof a Star Wars movie . The Glovers are currentlydeveloping a Lando filmwhich Glover would also star in . It ’s newsworthiness that has rightfully been viewed as very electropositive . However , since the start of the Disney era , Star Wars picture show have almost always ( with one specific elision ) felt like homogeneous product — the result of all style of opinion cut and paste together hoping to find the right equipoise . Insome casesit has worked , in other casesit has n’t , but in a new interview , Glover enunciate that wo n’t be happening with his film .
“ At this point , I just know when something ’s croak to be dear , because you ’re really push the diligence when you [ put your depression on a franchise as big as Star Wars ] , ” Glover toldthe Hollywood Reporter . “ I feel like I have enough control . And peradventure you get painted as a control freak , but it ’s like , yeah , command allows for the visual modality to be singular . And if the vision is singular , citizenry want it more . The less it ’s unique , the less people want it because they feel like they could ’ve made it . Look , we live in a time where anybody can fucking make anything . You go on TikTok , there ’s literally every type of thing . There ’s documentaries , there ’s puppetry , there ’s yarn stop - move . So why would you require to see something you feel like you could have made ? ”
Donald Glover at the premiere of Solo: A Star Wars Story.Photo: Kevin Winter (Getty Images)
He also cite that he wanted to make this film because he have it off the characters but , also , “ my nestling get laid Star Wars . ”
The estimation of Glover having that sort of control over a project as big as Star Wars sure sound outstanding . But , as we ’ve seen in the past , if Lucasfilm is n’t happy with how things are drop dead , it will abbreviate and run . specially when it comes to artist with more unique voices . So , fundamentally , until the Lando movie is in theaters , we ’re a little distressed about it actually happening how Glover envisions it . We ’re more sure-footed though that , if it does encounter that path , that it ’ll be dandy .
Glover ’s Lando movie is n’t one of thefour officially announced Star Wars movieson the Lucasfilm development slate — so if it gets made , we likely would n’t see it until 2028 or something at the earliest . Do you think it ’ll happen ?
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