By PTI
LOS ANGELES: Filmmaker Patty Jenkins’ “Star Wars” film “Rogue Squadron” has been delayed after initially planning to start out the manufacturing in 2022.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the movie was set to start pre-production by the top of this yr, however has been taken off the manufacturing slate for subsequent yr as a consequence of scheduling conflicts with Jenkins.
The “Star Wars” spin-off film was initially introduced in December 2020 at Disney and Lucasfilm’s Investor Day.
Matthew Robinson, greatest recognized for co-writing and co-directing the 2009 comedy “The Invention of Lying” with Ricky Gervais, is on board to pen “Rogue Squadron”.
The movie would be the first function venture within the long-running “Star Wars” franchise to be directed by a lady.
As per the official plotline launched by Lucasfilm, it would introduce a brand new era of starfighter pilots as they earn their wings and danger their lives in a boundary-pushing, high-speed thrill-ride, and transfer the saga into the longer term period of the galaxy.
“Rogue Squadron” would even be the primary function for the reason that finish of the “Skywalker Trilogy”, which concluded with 2019’s “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”.
It is scheduled to be launched on December 22, 2023.
