Whats up, what have we right here? An precise replace on the Disney+ Lando series? Don’t thoughts if we do.
io9 has confirmed that Donald Glover is officially joining the Star Wars sequence to jot down and star. He’ll write together with his brother, Stephen Glover, however Justin Simien—the director of Haunted Mansion, who was initially connected—is off the mission. Above the Line first reported the information.
It’s essential to notice although that each one this was in place earlier than the WGA or SAG-AFTRA strikes and no work has been taking place on the sequence since. It’s simply a type of circumstances the place issues occurred lengthy earlier than the information broke, and when somebody lastly needed to discuss in public, it got here out.
In keeping with the studies, Simien left the mission when he turned his consideration full-time to Haunted Mansion. That’s when Lucasfilm reached out to Glover who, alongside together with his brother, pitched and the corporate beloved it. There’s no phrase on how far alongside improvement or writing is, however contemplating that is the very first information that somebody is engaged on this factor in any respect in a number of years, we’ll take it.
Glover, after all, first threw on the cape of the enduring Billy Dee Williams character in 2018’s Solo: A Star Wars Story. And although that movie was not the hit Disney or Lucasfilm needed it to be, just about everybody beloved Glover’s interpretation of the well-known scoundrel turned Insurgent chief. Phrase of this spinoff sequence was made official on the identical day we first realized in regards to the Ahsoka sequence in addition to The Acolyte, approach again in December 2020. Flash ahead to now, Ahsoka can be out in lower than a month and the latter is out subsequent yr. Lando will, hopefully, observe some time after that.
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