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From BuzzFeedNews.com ...
A New "Star Wars" Movie Based On "Knights Of The Old Republic"
Is In The Works
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A movie based on Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic - the
beloved video game first released in 2003 - is currently being
written by Laeta Kalogridis (Avatar, Shutter Island) for
Lucasfilm, three sources close to the project told BuzzFeed
News.
The project should be welcome news to the Star Wars fandom, who
may be feeling beaten down after Solo's disappointing box office
led Lucasfilm to reevaluate the franchise's ambitions and scale
back the studio's release schedule. Knights of the Old Republic,
nicknamed KOTOR by its devotees, is a role-playing game about
Jedi versus the Sith set nearly 4,000 years before the events of
1977's Star Wars: A New Hope. Fans have long yearned for its
rich story to be adapted to film.
At Star Wars Celebration in April, Lucasfilm President Kathleen
Kennedy told MTV News, "Yes, we are developing something to look
at," after being asked about KOTOR. "Right now, I have no idea
where things might fall."
Kalogridis is close to finishing the first script of a potential
KOTOR trilogy, according to the three sources. She is the first
woman writer of a Star Wars movie since The Empire Strikes Back
in 1980, when Leigh Brackett received a cowriting credit with
Lawrence Kasdan. Lucasfilm has been criticized for hiring only
white men to shepherd the world of Star Wars.
Representatives for Kalogridis, Lucasfilm, and Disney did not
respond to BuzzFeed News' requests for comment.
Disney announced earlier this month that after J.J. Abrams' new
Star Wars movie - The Rise of Skywalker, which will close out the
nine-film Skywalker family saga in December - the next film in
the franchise will be released in December 2022. That film, by
Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, will be
the first of a new trilogy, and, according to Disney, will come
out "pre-Christmas weekend every other year."
While there are many corners of the formidable Star Wars internet
that have speculated that Benioff and Weiss will be the stewards
of KOTOR, Kalogridis was hired in spring 2018 to develop the
property.
In the KOTOR game, the player helps fight an uprising against the
Republic led by the villainous Darth Malak, a Sith Lord. The
player eventually joins forces with Bastila Shan, a Jedi Knight
and one of the most revered women characters in the Star Wars
extended universe. The story has Wookiees, droids, the Jedi
Academy, and the Force - a wealth of material to be mined.
Lucasfilm's post-Solo retrenchment, and the fact that there are
only the three Benioff-Weiss movies on Disney's current release
schedule through 2026, doesn't necessarily make KOTOR an orphan.
None of the movies in Rian Johnson's upcoming Star Wars trilogy
are slated yet either, and as recently as last month, Kennedy
told the Hollywood Reporter she would soon be talking to Johnson,
Benioff, and Weiss about "where do we go next?"
What's chronologically next for the Star Wars franchise will be
Disney+, the megacompany's streaming service that kicks off
Nov. 12. From its launch, Disney+ will feature Jon Favreau's The
Mandalorian, a sci-fi drama set five years after the events of
Return of the Jedi. Disney+ has also announced a Rogue One
prequel series (currently untitled) that follows Diego Luna's
character, Cassian Andor.
With Cassian Andor - and with the Marvel properties Disney+ is
developing - Disney is proving it's interested in building
stories around characters cherished by the fandoms. If made,
KOTOR's Bastila Shan, Darth Malak, and Darth Revan would join
that roster.
< https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kateaurthur/new-star-wa rs-movie-knights-of-the-old-republic>
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