Leslye Headland — who was tapped to write, executive produce and serve as showrunner for a new “Star Wars” TV series on Disney Plus — recently teased where the show takes place in the franchise’s timeline.
What’s going on?
Headland (“Russian Doll,” “Bachelorette”) recently said in a YouTube interview with Fantastic Frankie that the show will happen somewhere no “Star Wars” fan has been before.
- “It’s in a pocket of the universe and a pocket of the timeline that we don’t know much about,” Headland said, according to IndieWire.
Headland said she grew up reading “Star Wars” books. She said the show needed to be focused on a specific event or time in the “Star Wars” universe.
- “For me, it’s less about going through the Star Wars universe cinematically or artistically, I’m actually kind of combing through it geographically and go on a literal journey,” Headland said, according to IndieWire.. “When we were pitching, I had my designer create that Indiana Jones-like ‘we go here and then we go here,’ with the little dotted red line like this is our journey, this is where we’re going.”
Other Disney Plus projects
Disney Plus has a number of other “Star Wars” projects in the works, including:
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“The Mandalorian” will have a third season.
- Disney previously announced a series based on “Rogue One” star Cassian Andor before the events of the film.
- Disney announced a series based on Obi-Wan Kenobi, which is set between “Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith” and “Star Wars: A New Hope.”
- There are rumors of a Boba Fett miniseries, which just picked up steam this week.
- An animated show called “The Bad Batch” will be a follow-up to “The Clone Wars.”
- There were briefly rumors of a Darth Maul television series