Shawn Levy attends ‘The Adam Project’ World Premiere at Alice Tully Hall on February 28, 2022 in New York City. Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images for Netflix.
It actually is an effective time to be director Shawn Levy proper now. Not solely is he one of many key artistic staff members behind ‘Stranger Things’ (he’s an government producer and directs at the least one episode a season), however his film partnership with Ryan Reynolds on ‘Free Guy’ has led to a fruitful follow-up that included ‘The Adam Project’ and now, ‘Deadpool 3’, which is in improvement.
But there was even greater news at this time, as Deadline brings word that Levy can be in talks to direct a ‘Star Wars’ film for Disney/Lucasfilm.
While this might sound like an enormous hearsay, Levy has confirmed that he’s at the least in discussions by way of social media.
So far, Deadline has not been capable of pry unfastened any particulars on author, topic or launch date from the notoriously close-mouthed Lucasfilm staff, so we don’t but know who else can be concerned ought to Levy truly lock in a deal.
And outdoors of planning the ‘Deadpool’ mayhem and no matter his duties find yourself being on the fifth and last season of ‘Stranger Things’, Levy has been preserving usually busy. He’s in post-production on Netflix restricted collection ‘All the Light We Cannot See’, for which he directed all 4 episodes.
There continues to be chatter a couple of ‘Free Guy’ sequel and due to his 21 Laps firm, Levy has not often been overseeing extra initiatives, although he has neatly delegated a few of that work to his staff.
Shawn Levy speaks throughout ‘The Adam Project’ World Premiere at Alice Tully Hall on February 28, 2022 in New York City. Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images for Netflix.
It marks one other optimistic flip within the persevering with world of ‘Star Wars’, with a number of administrators/writer-directors lined up for future movies. Taika Waititi and Rian Johnson are each at totally different levels of planning films set in that galaxy far, far-off.
‘Wonder Woman’ director Patty Jenkins stays connected to Rebel fighter pilot pic ‘Rogue Squadron’, at the same time as that movie stays parked in a improvement hanger having misplaced its slot on the Disney/Lucasfilm launch calendar.
And there’s additionally a mysterious film from Damon Lindelof, which not too long ago employed ‘Ms. Marvel’s Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy to direct.
‘Ms. Marvel’ director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy.
Kathleen Kennedy and the Lucasfilm staff has been making an attempt to determine the way forward for large display ‘Star Wars’ following the combined response to ‘The Rise of Skywalker’. There is not any stable details about which film can be subsequent, however there’s an untitled movie set within the ‘Wars’ universe on the discharge calendar for 2025.
It’s past uncertain that any movie directed by Levy might be prepared for that date – along with his present assignments, he most likely wouldn’t even be capable to begin work on a film earlier than 2025 anyway. So we’ll be ready to observe this one.
Meanwhile, ‘Star Wars’ followers can hold themselves occupied with the likes of Disney+ collection ‘The Mandalorian’ (which returns for a 3rd season subsequent yr), ‘Ahsoka’ (starring Rosario Dawson because the Jedi warrior) and ‘The Acolyte’, which simply began taking pictures.
Shawn Levy attends ‘The Adam Project’ World Premiere at Alice Tully Hall on February 28, 2022 in New York City. Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images for Netflix.
