One of the most exciting announcements to come out of Star Wars Celebration earlier this year was the news that Logan and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny Director James Mangold was set to direct one Star Wars movie unlike any we’ve seen before.
Specific plot details have yet to be revealed, but we do know that the untitled film will take place 25,000 years in the past in an entirely new and unexplored era in the Galaxy Far, Far Away.
Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy has indicated that the film will focus on “Dawn of the Jedi Order,” but based on what Mangold says in a new interview with Gizmodothe story may actually predate the appearance of the Jedi Knights.
“For me, it’s about, I want to be part of the saga, but I also don’t want to hold so much knowledge up in the air that you can hardly tell a story. And what I really wanted to do, what he said to her, we can just kind of do the Ten Commandments of the Force, you know? A sort of origin story of how the Force came to be known, understood, wielded and harnessed.”
So it sounds like the movie will really be more about the origins of the force and the first humans to harness it rather than the fully-fledged Jedi.
Mangold is currently working on his Bob Dylan biopic and has one too Swamp Thing movie on his schedule. When asked when this Star Wars project might go into production, the director said it was simply “impossible to answer.”
