Previous comments on how James Mangold’s Star Wars movie happened have painted a picture of mutual excitement between the co-writer/director and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy. So hearing that Dawn of the Jedi is not only still cooking, but it’s being given the time to do so, is exciting.

While not much is known about the plot of James Mangold‘s upcoming Star Wars movie, it has been confirmed that it will take place 25,000 years before the events of A New Hope. In a recent discussion,

James Mangold , the director behind Logan and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny , is currently developing an ambitious Star Wars project for Lucasfilm that will explore the origins of the Jedi. Tentatively referred to as Dawn of the Jedi ,

James Mangold remains hard at work on a Star Wars movie set 25,000 years in the past and, in a new interview, the filmmaker explains how that's freed him from lore and fan expectations. Check it

Director James Mangold says he is "not that interested in being handcuffed by so much lore" for his Star Wars film because there is no pleasing everyone.

A new Star Wars movie is on the way from Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny director James Mangold, and it's going to be set tens of thousands of years back on the Star Wars timeline. Why set it so far in the past?