Taika Waititi's Star Wars Movie Is 'On Ice' Indefinitely — SkimNews
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- Taika Waititi confirmed his "Star Wars" movie is "on ice" indefinitely, telling Inverse while promoting "Klara and the Sun" that he and his collaborator are "working on a different thing together" — adding, "I don't even know how to dress it up or make it even vague."
- Waititi described the project as "very iced," said he has "about four other movies I'm trying to do," and offered a noncommittal note that "Ice ages do come to an end… Who knows?"
- The Star Wars film had been in development since 2020, and in January Waititi said he was "trying to go back and harness a little bit more of the fun from the original films" and make the project "a little different and a little bit more its own thing."
- Exiting Lucasfilm boss Kathleen Kennedy had previously said Waititi's "Star Wars" was "still somewhat alive," a characterization at odds with the director's own framing of the project as shelved.
- "Klara and the Sun," Waititi's latest directorial effort, has drawn a mixed critical response, with Variety's Guy Lodge writing that Waititi's choice to play the Kazuo Ishiguro adaptation "for strained, whimsical comedy is ruinous."
Why it matters: The shelving strips another film from Lucasfilm's already thin Star Wars theatrical slate, and the gap between Kennedy's "still somewhat alive" and Waititi's "very iced" underscores how loosely the studio was tracking a project it publicly kept on the books since 2020 — leaving the franchise's feature roadmap narrower as Waititi pivots to four other films.
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