The film STAR WARS by James Mangold entrusts the writer ANDOR with the role of co-writer

One of Star Wars the projects that have been set up at Lucasfilm that I am most enthusiastic and curious about are the ones developed by the director James Mangoldwhich is called Dawn of the Jedi.

The story will take place 25,000 years before the events of the original trilogy and will focus on the birth of the Force. This is a great Star Wars lore to explore.

THR offered an update on the project and revealed it House of cards Creator Beau Willimon came on board to co-write the screenplay with Mangold. Willimon is no stranger to Star Wars as he also wrote three episodes of the first season of Andor, which earned him an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series.

Mangold previously spoke about his project and how the film came to be, and explained why it is set in the distant past:

“I talked to him [Lucasfilm] before and I’ve also worked on other projects a little bit before, and I’m always interested in what’s going on there and I have friends who work on other Star Wars projects. But I realized that a lot of what they were doing was kind of continuing the saga.”

Mangold then went on to talk about the presentation he made to Lucasfilm, saying:

“So when I talked to Kathy about it [Kennedy, Lucasfilm president] the idea I had of going back – really, really back – surprised me because it excited her and the other wonderful people she works with at Lucasfilm. For me it’s about wanting to be part of the saga, but I also don’t want to keep so much lore in the air that it’s hard to tell a story. And what I really wanted to do, what I told her, was that we could create a kind of Ten Commandments of Strength, you know? A sort of origin story of how the Force came to be known, understood, wielded and harnessed.”

Mangold also described the film as a Ben Hur OR The 10 commandments Force movies:

“It’s an opportunity to tell the whole story, the birth of strength. When I first talked about this with Kathy Kennedy, I simply said, “I really see this opening to create a kind of Ben-Hur or The 10 Commandments about the birth of the Strength.” The Force has become a sort of religious legend that runs through all of these films. But where did it come from? How do you find? Who found it? Who was the first Jedi? And that’s what I’m writing right now.”

In another interview, speaking about how the film would focus on the discovery of the Force, Mangold said:

“It just came from the fact that I thought if I did one, it seemed to me that most of what they were thinking about doing with the films was about the present of Star Wars or the future, and what attracted me most was the distant past and how this galaxy was formed and how, more specifically, the Force was discovered.”

What we know about the ancient history of the Force is that in “36,453 BBY, philosophers and scientists from different star systems gathered on Tython to share mystical knowledge. The Force has been “discovered”. Unfortunately, in 25,793 BBY, several Tythan scholars began using their knowledge of the Force to pursue power, leading to the start of the Force Wars. The peaceful-minded monks who survived the destruction of Tython founded the Jedi Order in 25,783 BBY.

I’m fascinated by this Star Wars lore and am excited to see what Mangold does with it as he tells the story.