Director James Mangold just released Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, and one of his next big projects is a Star Wars movie. Not much is known about it, but it’s been confirmed that the director’s project will go back in time to the origins of the Force. Mangold spoke a little more about this in a recent interview with Variety.
Mangold recalled that in a conversation with Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy, he observed that the newest Star Wars movies pushed further into the future but he wanted to go backward.
The movie Mangold pitched to Kennedy was a “a Ten Commandments about the dawning of the Force,” he said. “It is basically, for fans, a kind of religion. What is it to have found this power and not even understand what it is?”