‘Star Wars’: Beau Willimon to Co-Write James Mangold’s Movie
Beau Willimon moves from House of Cards to House of Jedi.
This playwright and screenwriter was hired to write the screenplay for Lucasfilm's feature film Star Wars: Rise of the Jedi, directed by James Mangold.
Willimon will co-write the script for the project with Mangold. The project traces the origins of the Force and is set 25,000 years before the timeline and stories told in previous films and series.
The working title, Rise of the Jedi, was first unveiled at the last Star Wars Celebration in London in April 2023, almost exactly one year earlier.
"When I first talked to Kathy [Kennedy] about making these pictures, we had the idea of thinking about what kind of movie genre we wanted to make within Star Wars," Mangold said at the time. Ta. "Then I thought of Biblical epics about the beginnings of power, like the Ten Commandments. Where did the Force come from? When did we discover it? When did we learn how to use it?"
This project is... Like most Star Wars endeavors, it has been shrouded in Sith secrecy ever since.
No release date has been set for the feature film, but Mangold will turn his attention to Rise of the Jedi after completing Complete Unknown, the Bob Dylan biopic starring Timothée Chalamet, which will be released by Disney. Subsidiary Searchlight Pictures is expected to. The next Star Wars movie is said to be The Mandalorian and Grogu, with a release date set for Friday, May 22, 2026.
Rise of the Jedi is not Willimon's first experience in hyperspace. The writer worked on the first season of Andor, the acclaimed and Emmy-nominated Star Wars series centered around the character played by Diego Luna. Willimon wrote three episodes, including the prison escape episode titled "One Way Out". The episode earned Willimon an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series and featured Andy Serkis' heartbreaking line, "I can't swim."
The author is known for his dramatic skills, and his works have political overtones and deal with themes of power. "House of Cards" was held at the Hall in Washington, D.C. It was one of his most acclaimed series of the mid-2010s, and helped establish Netflix as a destination for original television. He also co-wrote the political thriller “The Ides of March” with George Clooney and Ryan Gosling and created Hulu’s space drama “The First.”