It has been announced that Academy Award® winner Taika Waititi will be directing and co-writing a new "Star Wars" feature film for theatrical release. Waititi recently won Best Adapted Screenplay for "Jojo Rabbit" and directed the widely-acclaimed first season finale episode of "The Mandalorian" on Disney+. Academy Award nominee Krysty Wilson-Cairns will co-write with Waititi.
In addition, Emmy®-nominated writer Leslye Headland ("Russian Doll," "Bachelorette") is currently developing a new untitled "Star Wars" series for Disney+. Headland will write, executive produce, and serve as showrunner for the in-development series, which adds to a growing list of "Star Wars" stories for Disney's streaming platform including "The Mandalorian," now in post-production on season 2, and two other previously ordered series: one based on Cassian Andor prior to the events of "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" and another following the adventures of Obi-Wan Kenobi between "Revenge of the Sith" and "A New Hope."
No release date has been set for the projects yet.
