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James Mangold’s ‘Star Wars’ Movie Is Set 25,000 Years Before ‘Phantom Menace’ So That It’s Not ‘Handcuffed by Lore’: Then ‘You Can’t Please Anybody’
James Mangold's "Star Wars" movie is set 25,000 years before "The Phantom Menace" so that it's not beholden to any franchise lore and canon.
Mangold told io9 last year shortly after his involvement in a “Star Wars” movie was revealed that his project would center on the origins of the Force and how it was “understood, wielded and harnessed” with a vibe similar to Biblical epics such as “The Ten Commandants.” He said then that he was not interested in “holding so much lore in the air that you can hardly tell a story.” While Mangold is an Oscar contender this year for helming the Bob Dylan biographical drama, he is no stranger to major Hollywood franchises as the director behind “The Wolverine,” “Logan” and “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.” Mangold spoke to Variety in 2023 ahead of the release of the fifth “Indiana Jones” adventure and said bluntly that he was “not interested” in crafting any spinoffs from the movie because “the amount of lore and Easter eggs and fan service starts to become antithetical to any of this stuff at a certain point.
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