According to Collider, Patty Jenkins has claimed she signed a new deal with Lucasfilm and Disney to return as writer and director of a Rogue Squadron movie.
What’s Happening:
- Patty Jenkins claimed she has made a deal with Lucasfilm and Disney as the writer and director of a Rogue Squadron movie.
- On a TCM/Max podcast she said she had left the role in order to make Wonder Woman 3 but has signed an agreement to return.
- Disney has not provided any more updates on the project since it was pulled from the calendar in 2022.
- In 2020, the Rogue Squadron was first announced. Disney was still trying to figure out the future of Star Wars after the release of The Rise of Skywalker. Very little detail followed what it would look like.
- Jenkins said she wanted to create Rogue Squadron “to fulfill her ambition of making the ultimate fighter pilot movie, a dream inspired by her late father, Capt. William T. Jenkins, a U.S. Air Force pilot who served during the Vietnam War.”
What They're Saying:
- Patty Jenkins said: “So, when I left Star Wars to do Wonder Woman 3 , I thought maybe I'll come back to Star Wars after Wonder Woman 3 . So we did a deal for that to happen, started a deal, but I thought I was doing Wonder Woman. When that went away, Lucasfilm and I were like, oh, we gotta finish this deal. We finished the deal right as the strike was happening. So I now owe a draft of Star Wars and so we will see what happens there. You know, like, who knows?
- And so we will see what happens there. You know, like, who knows? It's hard, they have a hard job in front of them of what's the first movie they're gonna do. They have other directors who have been working, but I am now, you know, I'm back on doing Rogue Squadron and we'll see what happens. We need to develop, you know, get it to where we're both super happy with it.”