It looks like, although not officially announced, a new Star Wars series is on the horizon on Disney+.
The new series will be from co-creator of Russian Doll, Leslye Headland and it will be a “female-centric series that takes place in a different part of the Star Wars timeline than other projects”.
Headland will write and act as showrunner on the series, with cast and crew already being chosen at Disney+.
Headland made her name on the hit Netflix series Russian Doll and directed several episodes. She also wrote and directed the Seven Deady Sins plays, which included an instalment called Greed, based on her ex-boss, Harvey Weinstein, who she acted as personal assistant too for a year prior to his fall from grace.
The show joins the currently in development Mandalorian seasons 2 and 4, the Obi-Wan Kenobi series and the Cassian Andor series.
This news comes on the same week as it was revealed that Star Wars merchandise in no longer a desired commodity with fans and that Star Wars: The Last Skywalker was the least successful movie in Disney’s new trilogy – which means that it and Solo both massively underperformed after Rian Johnson’s The Last Jedi. Make of that what you will.
But it certainly means that, while Disney as won back a lot of the fans it lost over the new trilogy with The Mandalorian and the return of The Clone Wars… but they’re still on shaky ground.
Source: Variety
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