Donald Glover Offers Update on Returning to the STAR WARS Universe as Lando Calrissian

It’s been awhile since we’ve had any kind of update on Donald Glover’s Lando Calrissian series project at Lucasfilm. Before today, the most recent update came about a year ago from Kathleen Kennedy saying, “We're still talking about Lando with Donald Glover.”

After almost of year of talking with Glover, those talks are still happening. During a recent interview with GQ, Glover was asked about reprising the role again, and he said he’d “love to play Lando again” and that playing the character was a fun experience for him. However, he explains that it needs to be the right project for him to return. He said:

“It just needs to be the right way to do it. Now, time is precious. I think everybody’s like, from the past couple years with this pandemic shit, has really had people experience time in a way where they’re like, ‘Well, why am I [doing this] … I should be around oranges.’ [Glover did the interview in an orchard]

He went on to say that he doesn’t want to waste his time on anything that he’s not fully invested in, and he says Lando is definitely a character he’d like to play again:

“People kind of realized that their time was valuable. You only get so much. So I am not interested in doing anything that’s just going to be a waste of my time or just a paycheck. I’d much rather spend time with people that I enjoy. So it just has to be the right thing, which I think it could be. Lando is definitely somebody I’d like to hang out with.”

It’s at this point he gives the update, saying:

“We’re talking about it. That’s as much as I can say without [Lucasfilm President] Kathleen Kennedy hunting me down.”

Glover previously shared his vision for a Lando project describing it as Frasier in space:

It would be cool to see, like, Frasier in Space. Like, a high-end guy in space. All of these characters are very specific and they have very specific points of view, so it’s always going to be fun to see them traveling around to a planet that is the opposite of what they’re used to … And all of that seems like it would be fun to write, for sure.

Are they still just talking about it? Or, are they actually in the middle of developing it and he just doesn’t want to drop that news? Maybe we’ll get a big announcement soon during Star Wars Celebration later this month!