Disney and Lucasfilm are developing a female-led Star Wars series as part of their line-up of projects for Disney+. The series will be spearheaded by Russian Doll co-creator and showrunner Leslye Headland, who recently provided new details on the timeline of the Star Wars show and how her pitch to the studio was influenced by Harrison Ford’s Indiana Jones franchise.
When news of Headland’s Star Wars series was first reported, few details on the project were provided aside from the fact that it would be female-centric and set in a different period of the franchise’s timeline. Up to this point, the Star Wars films and television shows have been primarily set during a sixty-plus year period chronicling the fall of the Galactic Republic to the Resistance’s war against the First Order.
Now Headland has revealed that her series will not only examine a new time period in Star Wars lore, it will also explore new geographical corners of the galaxy. “I would say it’s in a pocket of the universe and a pocket of the timeline that we don’t know much about,” said Headland during an interview with Fantastic Franky. “I kind of see, if Star Wars is a religion. I like to think of my show as a tent revival. You can come over if you want to. We’re going to be talking about some cool stuff.” Headland elaborated by explaining that her plans for the show include introducing new elements and faces to the Star Wars mythology, saying, “there’s going to be some things we haven’t discussed in the canon yet. There are going to be some characters you don’t know about.”
Headland also revealed that she turned to the Indiana Jones films to help visually demonstrate the locations she wanted to explore in the series during her pitch meeting with Disney. “For me, it’s less about going through the Star Wars universe cinematically or artistically, I’m actually kind of combing through it geographically and go on a literal journey,” she said. “When we were pitching, I had my designer create that Indiana Jones-like ‘we go here and then we go here,’ with the little dotted red line like this is our journey, this is where we’re going.”
With the Skywalker saga now complete, Disney and Lucasfilm appear to be putting all of their efforts into the Star Wars television shows. The Mandalorian remains the only series available on Disney+ at this point, but the upcoming slate of projects includes an Obi-Wan Kenobi show featuring Ewan McGregor, a Rogue One prequel, and an animated project centered on the titular clone trooper squadron known as The Bad Batch.
There are also rumors claiming Disney and Lucasfilm are considering producing a series centered on Boba Fett. The popular hunter infamously met his demise in Return of the Jedi after falling into the Sarlacc pit but was revealed to have survived the ordeal after making a brief appearance in The Mandalorian season two premiere.
The Star Wars saga is now available on Disney+.
Source: Fantastic Franky/YouTube
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