Patty Jenkins Says She’s Back on ‘Star Wars’ Movie ‘Rogue Squadron’

Patty Jenkins is providing an appealing upgrade on her long-presumed-dead Celebrity Wars movie Rogue Armada.

The Marvel Female supervisor says she’s back in energetic growth on the task and is functioning on a draft for Lucasfilm.

“When I left Star Wars to do Wonder Woman 3, and I started working on that, we talked about, ‘Well, maybe I’ll come back to Star Wars after Wonder Woman 3,’” she informed the Speaking Photo Podcast. “So we started a deal for that to happen. So when Wonder Woman 3 went away, Lucasfilm and I were like, ‘Oh, we’ve got to finish this deal.’ We finished the deal right as the strike was beginning. So I now owe a draft of Star Wars. So we will see what happens there. Who knows? They have a hard job in front of them of, ‘What’s the first movie [since the sequel trilogy] they’re going to do?’ They have other directors who have been working, but I am now back on doing Rogue Squadron. We’ll see what happens. We need to get it to where we’re both super happy with it.”

“The emotion of Star Wars and what it stands for is something so beautiful in this world,” she included.“Star Wars was born out of World War II … so in that way I’ve always wanted to make a fighter pilot movie. … So yes, I would love to do it.”

Lucasfilm has actually established several tasks for the cinema, however has actually had difficulty obtaining one over the goal adhering to 2019’s Celebrity Wars: The Surge of Skywalker. The following movie to strike movie theaters will certainly Grogo and the Mandalorian, which gets here May 22, 2026.

Jenkins had actually been revealed as the supervisor of Rogue Armada in December 2020. The movie lugged the main summary, “The story will introduce a new generation of starfighter pilots as they earn their wings and risk their lives in a boundary-pushing, high-speed thrill-ride, and move the saga into the future era of the galaxy.” The task, Jenkins included a succeeding meeting, had actually remained in growth at Lucasfilm for a lengthy while.

After that, in November 2021, The Hollywood Press reporter reported the movie was postponed because of Jenkins’ dedications to various other tasks, and it was formally removed of Lucasfilm’s manufacturing timetable.

Yet in late 2022, as Jenkins left Wonder Female 3 at Detector Bros., Jenkins exposed she had actually made a brand-new offer with Lucasfilm to proceed functioning on the manuscript, recommending that without Marvel Female on her docket, Rogue Armada may be much more possible.

5 months, later on in April 2023, Lucasfilm head of state Kathleen Kennedy validated Rogue Armada will certainly remain to be talked about however may be re-imagined as a television collection. In November 2023, nonetheless, Disney chief executive officer Bob Iger stated Wonder weakened its target market by doing a lot of television programs– a cost that some have actually likewise stated concerning the firm’s Celebrity Wars initiatives.

Jenkins formerly opened concerning the idea and her individual add-on to the facility: “When [my father] lost his life in service to [the United States], it ignited a desire in me to turn all of that tragedy and thrill into one day making the greatest fighter pilot movie of all time. But try as I might and look as I did, I couldn’t find the right story ever. I kept looking and looking, but I just couldn’t find the right one. Now, I found a story about two things I love.”