Disney Reveals ‘Star Wars’ Mystery Series From ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Director Jon Watts As Well As Details On ‘Obi-Wan, ‘Andor,’ ‘The Acolyte’
deadline.comA little more than a week before Disney’s Star Wars Celebration fan event, LucasFilm primed the pump in a lengthy Vanity Fair cover story revealing details about the constellation of Star Wars projects headed for Disney+.Possibly the most intriguing bit of news in the piece is confirmation of a mystery series from Spider-Man: Homecoming director Jon Watts and writer Chris Ford.
Described as a coming-of-age story in the vein of the classic Amblin films of the 1980s — think E.T., Gremlins, The Goonies — it’s set in a galaxy far, far away.
The series’ code name is “Grammar Rodeo” after a Simpsons episode that sees Bart and his pals run away from home. It is said to be set after Return of the Jedi and the fall of the Empire in the same time period as The Mandalorian.There’s a bunch of plot and character details in the piece about Andor, which is said to be debuting on Disney+ in late summer 2022.
That series sees Diego Luna reprising his Rogue One character, Cassian Andor, in an examination of his backstory. It’s set during the height of the Empire and begins with the destruction of Andor’s homeworld.Luna describes the series as “the journey of a migrant…That feeling of having to move is behind this story…That shapes you as a person.
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