The STAR WARS Anthology Film Josh Trank Was Working on Is Still a Go
I'm sure you all remember that Fantastic Four director Josh Trank was attached to direct one of the Star Wars Anthology films for Disney and Lucasfilm. During Star Wars Celebration earlier this year, we learned that Trank was no longer attached to the project. I can only imagine it was due to all of the crazy drama surrounding the Fantastic Four production and the lack of quality of the film.
I'm sure Star Wars fans are extremely happy that Trank is no longer directing that movie. The project was left in limbo after his departure, but it's certainly not dead. The film is still in active development, but without Trank there to screw it up.
Lucasfilm has yet to bring on a new director, but while talking to Entertainment Weekly, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy reassured fans that they are still moving forward with the movie, which has obviously been delayed. She said,
"It’s still one of the stories that we absolutely want to tell. There is a lot of innovative technology in and around what it is we’re doing with that story, so for a lot of reasons, we were comfortable postponing that. But we’re definitely still developing it."
There's no information one what exactly the story for the film will involve, but the report speculates that it will be released sometime in 2020. Kennedy went on to explain that Lucasfilm and the producers, including Simon Kinberg, are going to take their time and make sure they get this film right, which is reassuring.
There have been rumors that the movie centers around Boba Fett, but since then there have been reports that the bounty hunter could be included into all three of the Anthology films that are in development. It was also rumored that they were having problems developing a story for the bounty hunter. Maybe now that Trank is out, they will have better luck.
As of right now the slate of Star Wars films include J.J. Abrams' Star Wars: The Force Awakens opening December 18th, 2015, Gareth Edwards' Star Wars: Rogue One on December 16th, 2016, Rian Johnson’s Episode VIII in May of 2017, Chris Miller and Phil Lord’s young Han Solo film in May of 2018, and Episode IX will hit theaters on 2019.