One of the most exciting announcements to come out of Star Wars Celebration earlier this year was the news that Logan and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny director James Mangold was set to helm a Star Wars movie unlike any we've seen before.
Specific plot details are still under wraps, but we do know that the untitled film will be set 25,000 in the past during an entirely new and unexplored era in the Galaxy Far, Far Away.
Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy mentioned that the movie will focus on the "Dawn of the Jedi Order," but based on what Mangold says in a new interview with Gizmodo, the story may actually predate the emergence of the legendary Jedi Knights.
"For me, it’s about, I want to be part of the saga, but I also don’t want to be holding so much lore in the air that you can hardly tell a story. And what I really wanted to do, what I told her, was just can we make a kind of the Ten Commandments of the Force, you know? A kind of origin story of how the Force came to be known, understood, wielded, and harnessed.”
So, it sounds like the movie will really be more about the origin of the force and the first people to harness it than an exploration of the first fully-fledged Jedi.
Mangold is currently working on his Bob Dylan biopic, and also has a Swamp Thing movie on his schedule. When asked when this Star Wars project may enter production, the filmmaker said it was simply "impossible to answer."
A Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi Dark Horse comic series by John Ostrander and Jan Duursema was released in 2012 which chronicled the origin of the Jedi (Je'daii) Order, but we have no idea if that story will influence Mangold's movie.
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