Donald Glover has grow to be a kind of artists when, if his identify is connected, you expect a certain level of quality. From his music to his present Atlanta, to even his new collection Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Glover by no means appears like he’s working for a paycheck. He’s working to be inventive and attention-grabbing, and since he thinks the tip product will likely be value it.
Which, frankly, is why it was such a shock to listen to that he and his brother Stephen had taken the reins of a Star Wars film. The Glovers are at present developing a Lando film which Glover would additionally star in. It’s information that has rightfully been considered as very optimistic. Nonetheless, because the begin of the Disney period, Star Wars motion pictures have virtually at all times (with one specific exception) felt like homogeneous merchandise—the results of all method of opinions minimize and pasted collectively hoping to seek out the correct steadiness. In some cases it has labored, in other cases it hasn’t, however in a brand new interview, Glover says that received’t be occurring along with his movie.
“At this level, I simply know when one thing’s going to be good, since you’re actually combating the business while you [put your imprint on a franchise as big as Star Wars],” Glover advised the Hollywood Reporter. “I really feel like I’ve sufficient management. And perhaps you get painted as a management freak, but it surely’s like, yeah, management permits for the imaginative and prescient to be singular. And if the imaginative and prescient is singular, individuals need it extra. The much less it’s singular, the much less individuals need it as a result of they really feel like they might’ve made it. Look, we stay in a time the place anyone can fucking make something. You go on TikTok, there’s actually each kind of factor. There’s documentaries, there’s puppetry, there’s yarn stop-motion. So why would you need to see one thing you’re feeling like you would have made?”
He additionally mentions that he needed to make this movie as a result of he loves the characters however, additionally, “my children love Star Wars.”
The concept of Glover having that sort of management over a mission as huge as Star Wars positive sounds nice. However, as we’ve seen prior to now, if Lucasfilm isn’t pleased with how issues are going, it will cut and run. Especially when it comes to artists with more unique voices. So, principally, till the Lando film is in theaters, we’re a little bit fearful about it truly occurring how Glover envisions it. We’re extra assured although that, if it does occur that manner, that it’ll be nice.
Glover’s Lando film isn’t one of many four officially announced Star Wars movies on the Lucasfilm growth slate—so if it will get made, we in all probability wouldn’t see it till 2028 or one thing on the earliest. Do you suppose it’ll occur?
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