Wonder Woman's Patty Jenkins is Directing a Rogue Squadron Movie
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She said in December 2020 that a writer had been hired and the story treatment was almost finished.
https://collider.com/star-wars-rogue-squadron-script-patty-jenkins-interview/
Also I hope she co-writes it.
I don't. I have no respect for her writing skills. Especially after "Wonder Woman 1984". I also heard about her treatment for the third Wonder Woman movie. Let's just say that for her sake, I hope it's not true.
WW84 wasn’t great. But we don’t know how much of that was her and how much of that was the studio.
She also wrote Monster. Which is really good.
Since that was basically dumped along with the stories that she had a complete meltdown and quit, I'm taking that with a grain of salt. I mean, the story of the meltdown maty be true, but I think if Jenkins was THAT ticked off before leaving, she wouldn't have posted a response quite so calm.
When all is said and done, I think it might be a combination of the studio being worried about the third film given the audience reception of the second and all the internal mess going on at Warner right now. Maybe they had issues with the story, but it's still plenty early to fix it. If I were in her place I might bail, too, because what I'm told today may not hold next week what with Warner going through some things.
Warner/HBO is axing stuff left and right, including WW3.
I have not watched the first 2 so I have no comment on her style, but she's a highly regarded filmmaker.
Personally I'd prefer to see Rogue Squadron as a Disney+ series rather than a feature film. And I would definitely rather a coherent and polished product rather than a rushed mess.
I have not watched the first 2 so I have no comment on her style, but she's a highly regarded filmmaker.
Personally I'd prefer to see Rogue Squadron as a Disney+ series rather than a feature film. And I would definitely rather a coherent and polished product rather than a rushed mess.
Well, this seems to answer some questions and lead to more. Perhaps Rouge Squadron is back on the table!
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Well yeah, because by definition that's what happens during production. Pre-production can mean anything from one writer scribbling notes down between doing 5 other projects, to a team of several dozen writers, artists, sculptors, and model builders working 9-5; breaking story beats, drafting scripts, developing design concepts, building maquette and model prototypes, all the way to location scouting and research. (The clue for the latter happening is if Jenkins and a group of LF employees suddenly take a field trip to some USAF or RAF bases.)
Where 'Rogue Squadron' has fallen on this spectrum since Jenkins left the project is anyone's guess, between what she's said recently and the way Kennedy spoke of it some months back; it sounds to me that while it may have been on the books as technically still "active" very little if anything was likely actually being done.
How quickly things ramp back up again remains to be seen. Reports are that "a" movie (rumoured to be Taika's) is already ramping up to go from pre-production to actual production in the coming months, so LF's dinner card may be a little full for 2023, so it might be looking at a 2024 production for a '25-26 release at the earliest.
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Start the next movie with Dr Psycho calling Diana a c###.
The impression I got was that the script was in the process of being finalized.
To be fair, although she has sole screenplay credit on that movie, she also had some help writing it... i.e., real events.
I hope this movie is going to be made at all.
No surprise given Disney's budgeting measures.
Aww man.
