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Not truthful agelong agone successful a postulation not that acold away, Damon Lindelof was plotting to time off his people connected nan Star Wars universe.
The 3x Emmy victor precocious opened up astir being “fired disconnected of a Star Wars movie” aft struggling pinch “getting nan reside right” successful his planned installment successful nan Lucasfilm and Disney franchise.
“They asked me, ‘What do you deliberation a Star Wars movie should be?’ And I said, ‘Here’s what it should be.’ And they said, ‘Great, you’re hired,'” he recalled connected nan House of R podcast. “And past 2 years later, I was fired.”
Lindelof added, “What we were attempting to do was to person this speech successful nan movie, which is to say, location is simply a unit of nostalgia and location is simply a unit of revision, and they are astatine likelihood pinch 1 another. And let’s do nan Protestant Reformation wrong Star Wars. And it didn’t work.”
Although he things Lucasfilm “seemed to for illustration nan premise,” Lindelof thinks his conception “didn’t consciousness needfully that risky.”
“The penning was really hard, it was slow — nan tone, getting it right,” he explained. “Where it was wrong of nan canon, what its narration was pinch to Episode IX, is it starting a caller trilogy?”
Lindelof added, “It’s nan aged benignant of for illustration tanker equation, which is, you move nan instrumentality and it takes 5 minutes earlier it turns a small bit. We’re looking for nan halfway of Star Wars, and erstwhile Episode VII came out, we each knew what it was. It was Rey and it was Finn and it was Poe and it was for illustration each these, and past we were migrating backmost in, Luke and Leia and Han and Chewie and each those guys.”
