Star Wars Movie From J.D. Dillard No Longer Happening Says Devotion Director

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Star Wars Movie From J.D. Dillard No Longer Happening Says Devotion Director

Director J.D. Dillard’s planned Star Wars movie is no more, with the filmmaker recently revealing that Lucasfilm is no longer in the process of developing the project.

In a recent interview with TheWrap about his upcoming film Devotion, Dillard was asked about his Star Wars project, as a report that began in 2020 noted that Dillard was working on a film set in the iconic franchise. Dillard confirmed that the Star Wars project was “unfortunately no longer a thing.” While Dillard didn’t offer up any more information on why it wasn’t happening, he did note that it “was not for lack of trying.”

Dillard also noted that, while he didn’t want to get into the specifics of what the film would have been about, he did say that it would have drawn inspiration from the Star Wars video game TIE Fighter.

“My dad being an aviator, we had a bunch of flight simulators,” Dillard said. “I’m playing this game for months. And my dad’s flying it with me. And I’m like, ‘Man, this game is just so cool.’ And he’s like, ‘Well, you know, this game comes from a series of movies.’ And I was like, ‘You’re kidding me.’ That is where I watched Star Wars for the first time and realized the full scope of what it meant to world-build because I’d been playing this pseudo-16-bit game.”

While Dillard’s project is no longer being worked on, Lucasfilm is currently getting ready to return Star Wars to the big screen. A new film from director Taika Waititi is in the works, as are films by prolific writer Damon Lindelof and director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige is also said to be developing his own Star Wars project as a producer, as is Free Guy director Shawn Levy.