Marvel President Kevin Feige has brought the Marvel Cinematic Universe to life with movies like the Iron Man trilogy (2008-2013) that cemented Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark, Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) that brought fans Chris Evans’s Steve Rogers, and, of course, Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019) — two Marvel Studios films that changed everything for all of our favorite Avengers characters thanks to Thanos’s snap.
The Marvel boss also, of course, brought MCU characters to television for the first time with WandaVision and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, both of which became Disney+ streaming hits.
Waldron is the first member of Feige’s Star Wars team to break his silence regarding the secretive project. Per a recent Vanity Fair interview:
He can’t say much about getting the call to work on Feige’s Star Wars, but he can say, “You’ve heard all my references here. Star Wars! Indiana Jones! [Kathleen Kennedy], she’s made so many of my favorite movies. So to get to collaborate with both of those entities is a dream come true.”
Vanity Fair’s article went on to share Dan Harmon’s take on the top-secret Star Wars movie, which doesn’t have a scheduled release date at this time. Rick and Morty co-creator Harmon, who has worked closely with Waldron, noted:
“Star Wars is definitely sticky because if you make a certain brand of nerd happy, you’re actually middle fingering an adjacent breed of nerd,” Harmon says. “If you take it too seriously, you’re doing it wrong. If you don’t take it seriously enough, you’re definitely doing it wrong. It needs that total joy of the greatest franchise ever, along with a kind of swagger. I do think that Waldron would make a good match for that, but I don’t know if he would make a good match for the machine that’s carrying that stuff.”
Even though Harmon doesn’t seem completely sold about Waldron’s involvement in the Star Wars universe, there’s little doubt that Feige has hand-picked the best creative minds for his Star Wars film — whatever the storyline happens to be.
Keep in mind that, at this time, neither Feige himself nor Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy have confirmed casting information or a release date for this upcoming Star Wars feature film.
Patty Jenkins’s Star Wars: Rogue Squadron (2023) will be the next movie installment in the Star Wars story, so we can assume Feige’s film will release sometime after that.
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