The Title for James Mangold's STAR WARS Movie Reportedly Leaks
One of the most intriguing Star Wars projects in development at Lucasfilm right now is the one being developed by James Mangold.
His movie will take us back to the dawn of the Jedi, 25,000 years before the events of the original trilogy, and it will focus on the birth of The Force.
This is an era and story that has never been explored before and with Mangold on board, this movie is sure to give fans something epic and special.
Well, the title of the film may have been revealed. During an interview with SFX Magazine, producer Simon Emanuel, who worked with Mangold on Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, referred to the upcoming Star Wars movie as Jedi Prime.
Emanuel revealed: "James Mangold's Jedi Prime is set thousands and thousands of years before [the original trilogy], and I'm really excited to see what happens there.”
It has yet to be confirmed if Star Wars: Jedi Prime will be actual title of the movie, but the previous subtitle that the film has been referred to is Dawn of the Jedi.
Mangold previously explained why his film is set in the distant past. He said: "I've talked to [Lucasfilm] before and even worked a bit before on other projects, and I'm always interested in what's going on there and have friends who work on other Star Wars projects. But I understood that much of what they were doing was kind of continuing the saga forward."
Mangold then went on to talk about the pitch he made to Lucasfilm saying: "So when I mentioned to Kathy [Kennedy, Lucasfilm president] the idea that I had about going backward – really far backward – I was surprised that it excited her and the other wonderful people she works with at Lucasfilm.
“For me, it’s about, I want to be part of the saga, but I also don’t want to be holding so much lore in the air that you can hardly tell a story. And what I really wanted to do, what I told her, was just can we make a kind of the Ten Commandments of the Force, you know? A kind of origin story of how the Force came to be known, understood, wielded, and harnessed."
When previously talking about his project, he described it as a Ben-Hur or The 10 Commandments film about The Force: “It’s a chance to tell the entire story of its own, the birth of the force. When I first talked to Kathy Kennedy about it, I just said, ‘I just see this opening to make kind of a Ben-Hur or The 10 Commandments about the birth of the Force.’
“The Force has become a kind of religious legend that spans through all these movies. But where did it come from? How is it found? Who found it? Who was the first Jedi? And that’s what I’m writing right now.”
In another interview, when talking about how the movie would center on the discovery of The Force, Mangold said: "It just came from me thinking about if I were doing one, it seemed to me that most of what they were thinking about doing with movies were either in the present of Star Wars or the future, and what attracted me most was the distant past and how this galaxy formed and how, more specifically, the Force was discovered."
What we do know about the early history of The Force was that in “36,453 BBY, philosophers and scientists from several Star systems gathered on Tython to share mystical knowledge.
“The Force was ‘discovered.’ Unfortunately, in 25,793 BBY, several Tythan scholars began using their knowledge of the Force to pursue power, leading to the beginning of the Force Wars. Peace-minded monks that survived the destruction on Tython established the Jedi Order in 25,783 BBY.”
Are you excited about what James Mangold is planning for his Star Wars movie?