Lanterns creator Damon Lindelof has revealed the big ideas behind his canceled Star Wars movie. He was working with Justin Britt-Gibson on a Star Wars film centered on Daisy Ridley’s Rey Skywalker. However, both Lindelof and Britt-Gibson left the project two years after being hired.
What did Damon Lindelof say about his canceled Star Wars movie?
In an interview with The Ringer-Verse, Lindelof revealed some of the major ideas the team was toying with for the canceled Star Wars movie. This includes reinventing the idea of the Force, a major element of the Star Wars universe, as well as addressing questions regarding the film’s placement inside the larger canon.
“What we were attempting to do, my partner Justin Britt-Gibson, Rayna McClendon, and I — what we were attempting to do was to have this conversation in the movie, which is to say, there is a ‘Force of nostalgia’, and there is a ‘Force of revision’, and they are at odds with one another,” Lindelof said.“And let’s do the Protestant Reformation inside Star Wars. And it didn’t work.”
Lindelof went on to talk about how juggling the film’s place in the timeline and its generally slow development may have led to his departure from the project. In early 2025, the untitled Rey Skywalker movie was to be directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, with George Nolfi stepping in to write the film. Disney and Lucasfilm have yet to announce any new developments on the film.
“I may have been fired because they seemed to like the premise, it was just – the writing was hard, it was slow. The tone, getting it right, where it was inside of the canon, what its relationship was to Episode 9.Is it starting a new trilogy? All of those things – they’re so massive. They’re so big,”Lindelof added.
Following Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, the franchise returns to the big screen with The Mandalorian & Grogu releasing on May 22, 2026. The first look at the franchise post-sequel trilogy will be in Star Wars: Starfighter in 2027.
Originally reported by Rahul Majumdar on ComingSoon.net.
