{"id":2249006,"date":"2026-01-24T23:41:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T23:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2249006"},"modified":"2026-01-24T23:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T23:41:14","slug":"taika-waititi-says-his-star-wars-movie-needs-to-be-more-of-its-own-thing-and-he-cant-wait-to-see-chris-hemsworths-thor-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/taika-waititi-says-his-star-wars-movie-needs-to-be-more-of-its-own-thing-and-he-cant-wait-to-see-chris-hemsworths-thor-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Taika Waititi Says His \u2018Star Wars\u2019 Movie Needs to Be \u2018More of Its Own Thing\u2019 and He \u2018Can\u2019t Wait\u2019 to See Chris Hemsworth\u2019s Thor in \u2018Avengers: Doomsday\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0169806\/\">Taika Waititi<\/a>\u2019s \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt27156887\/\">Star Wars<\/a>\u201d movie has been in development since 2020, when Disney and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0071326\/\">Lucasfilm<\/a> announced the \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2584384\/\">Jojo Rabbit<\/a>\u201d Oscar winner would helm a new film in the franchise written by \u201c1917\u201d scribe <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4880670\/\">Krysty Wilson-Cairns<\/a>. There\u2019s been no big updates in the six years since, but interest in the project was recently revived after exiting Lucasfilm boss <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0005086\/\">Kathleen Kennedy<\/a> said Waititi\u2019s \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt27156887\/\">Star Wars<\/a>\u201d was \u201cstill somewhat alive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So what does Waititi have in store for \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt27156887\/\">Star Wars<\/a>\u201d fans? \u201cI\u2019m just trying to go back and harness a little bit more of the fun from the original films, which is what I remember [from] them,\u201d he told Variety at Sundance at the premiere of \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt31888498\/\">Fing!<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe stakes are very high, and there\u2019s serious things going on, but there\u2019s also a lot of fun to be had in those films. That\u2019s what I was trying to bring back,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taika Waititi\u2019s \u201cStar Wars\u201d movie has been in development since 2020, when Disney and Lucasfilm announced the \u201cJojo Rabbit\u201d Oscar winner would helm a new film in the franchise written by \u201c1917\u201d scribe Krysty Wilson-Cairns. There\u2019s been no big updates in the six years since, but interest in the project was recently revived after exiting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2249007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2249006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Taika-Waititi-Says-His-\u2018Star-Wars-Movie-Needs-to-Be.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2249006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2249008,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249006\/revisions\/2249008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2249007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2249006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2249006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2249006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}