The title of James Mangold’s STAR WARS film has reportedly been leaked

One of the most intriguing Star Wars projects in development at Lucasfilm right now is the one in development James Mangold.

His film will take us back to the dawn of the Jedi, 25,000 years before the events of the original trilogy, and will focus on the birth of the Force.

This is an era and story that has never been explored before and with Mangold on board, this film is sure to give fans something epic and special.

Well, the film’s title may have been revealed. During an interview with SFX Magazine, producer Simon Emanuel, who worked with Mangold Indiana Jones and the Quadrant of Destinyreferred to the next Star Wars movie as Jedi First.

Emanuel revealed: “James Mangold’s Jedi Prime is set thousands and thousands of years before [the original trilogy]and I’m really excited to see what happens there.

It has not yet been confirmed whether Star Wars: Jedi Prime will be the actual title of the film, but the previous subtitle referenced is Dawn of the Jedi.

Mangold previously explained why his film is set in the distant past. He said, “I spoke [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 his proposal 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.”

Speaking previously about his project, he described it as a Ben Hur OR The 10 Commandments film about the Force: “It’s an opportunity to tell the whole story, the birth of the force. When I first talked about this with Kathy Kennedy, I simply said, “I 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 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, talking about how the film would focus on the discovery of the Force, Mangold said: “It just came to me thinking if I did one, it seemed like most of what they were thinking about doing with the movies were in the Star Wars present 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.

Are you excited about what James Mangold is planning for his? Star Wars movie?