Highly Anticipated Star Wars Movie Hires ‘Andor’ Series Writer, And That’s Great News

James Mangold is set to direct a movie about the origins of the Jedi and their communion with the Force. Now, he has brought on board a new writer to help craft a weighty Star Wars story for the big screen.

Star Wars is making its return to the cinema. And it will do so with a slew of interconnected movies set in various times within the galactic timeline. On one hand, The Mandalorian and Grogu will hit theaters in 2026, concluding the adventures from the TV series, on the other hand, Daisy Ridley will return as Rey Skywalker, and James Mangold, director of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, will take us thousands of years back to before the events narrated in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace to tell us about the origin of the Force.

Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi will feature a prestigious screenwriter: the person responsible for Andor will join to shape a highly anticipated movie

Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi was announced last year at the Star Wars Celebration, a galactic festivity where it was confirmed that Star Wars would return to cinemas after months of drought on the big screen and a host of series on Disney+. The new film, led by the aforementioned director of Logan, will take us 25,000 years into the past, inviting us to meet the first generations of Jedi and the origin of the Force. While it’s known that Mangold will also serve as a writer, he won’t be doing it alone, as he will be joined by Beau Willimon, a writer with some experience in the saga.

Willimon was one of the writers for the Disney+ series Andor (2022), set just before the events of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), and which depicted the origins of the Rebellion with a realistic and unusual perspective for Star Wars. Willimon is also known for his work on the script for The Ides of March (2011) and Mary Queen of Scots (2018), but his resume doesn’t end there: he’s the creator and main writer of House of Cards (2013) and one of the key figures behind The First (2018).

Mangold has been working on this movie for years, which seems to have its own sort of classical epic foundation, following the aesthetics and grandeur of movies like Ben-Hur (1959) and The Ten Commandments (1956), transporting us to a unique moment in the galactic timeline that had not been told on screen before. For now, we will also travel to the past with Star Wars: The Acolyte.