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EXCLUSIVE: Deadline tin uncover that Shawn Levy is successful talks to travel aboard to make to nonstop a Star Wars film. We are trying to pry escaped details of crippled and writer, but this we tin archer you: Levy volition absorption connected this 1 aft helium completes the job directing Deadpool 3 astatine Marvel and Disney, the 1 that brings Ryan Reynolds unneurotic with Hugh Jackman.
This comes astatine a prolific infinitesimal for Levy. He is successful post-production connected the constricted bid All the Light We Cannot See, for which Levy directed each 4 episodes. That bid is for Netflix, wherever helium besides volition nonstop astatine slightest 2 episodes of the 5th and last season of the streamer’s signature series Stranger Things, which Levy EPs done his 21 Laps banner. The Deadpool 3 woody comes aft Levy teamed with Reynolds connected The Adam Project for Netflix. Star Wars volition beryllium his 3rd caller large movie astatine Disney, wherever helium besides directed Reynolds successful Free Guy, with a sequel being discussed. Levy is backmost successful franchises aft starting determination with the Night astatine the Museum films.
This movie lines up among respective spearheaded by A-list directors that Lucasfilm is developing. Others see a movie from Taika Waititi, Rogue Squadron from Patty Jenkins, and different from Damon Lindelof, which Deadline precocious reported would beryllium directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy.
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Lucasfilm hasn’t released a Star Wars film successful theaters since 2019’s Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker.
On the TV front, Leslye Headland’s bid The Acolyte recently went into accumulation with a formed that includes Amandla Stenberg and Squid Game star Lee Jung-jae. They besides person a caller play of The Mandalorian set to bow adjacent twelvemonth arsenic good as Ahsoka starring Rosario Dawson.
Levy is repped by WME. No remark from Disney.
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