Disney pulls Patty Jenkins’ Star Wars movie from schedule

As if millions of voices suddenly shouted and said, “yes, I saw this coming,” Disney has seemingly dumped Patty Jenkins’ Star wars movie Rogue Squadron from its upcoming release schedule, which means the movie — if it happens at all — won’t be happening anytime soon (it’s according to The Hollywood Reporter).

The reason for that doesn’t seem surprising, other than the fact that Disney just does Star wars TV these days and not Star wars movie, it is we heard last year which Jenkins reportedly didn’t really have room for Rogue Squadron in her schedule. She has Wonder Woman 3 will come at some point and work on one Cleopatra movies, and Star wars movies tend to be a lot of work (you have to make these miniature spaceships, you have to collect all the puffins into Porgs, and you have to lock down your Twitter account so people can’t send you hate mail).

Whatever the reason, it must be a good one: When Jenkins first announced the project in 2020, she pitched it in a teaser video as an intensely personal film that would have addressed both her love of Star wars and the death of her fighter pilot father when she was a child. The teaser was all about her putting one Star wars flight suit and jump in an X-Wing, so instead of shooting detailed premise, they just sold it on the fact that Patty Jenkins would do it and that she really want to make a film about fighter pilots.

As far as we know, it is the only one Star wars film currently in development at Lucasfilm and Disney Taika Waititi’s project, which we know nothing about (beyond safe assumptions you could make based on the rest of the Waititi canon, like his sense of humor and his tendency to give himself cameos). Or maybe there never will be one Star wars movie again, which… might not be the worst? The TV shows are okay with their lower stakes and eager fan service. Maybe Lucasfilm should focus on not spoiling Indiana Jones 5 for now.