‘Rogue Squadron’ Back in Development With Patty Jenkins Writing
In a stunning turn of events, Patty Jenkins herself is saying that, after Wonder Woman 3 was put on ice, she’s back developing Rogue Squadron for Lucasfilm.
The comment was made during her appearance at the podcast Talking Pictures where, after host Ben Mankiewicz asked about the once-canned Rogue Squadron, Patty Jenkins said the following:
“When I left Star Wars to do Wonder Woman 3, and I started working on that, we talked about ‘Well, maybe I’ll come back to Star Wars after Wonder Woman 3.’ So we did a deal for that to happen, started a deal. But when Wonder Woman 3 then went away, Lucasfilm and I were like ‘Oh, we gotta finish this deal.’ We finished the deal right as the strike was beginning.
So I now owe a draft of Star Wars. We will see what happens there. They have a hard job in front of them of what’s the first movie they’re gonna do. They have other directors who have been working, but I’m now back doing Rogue Squadron. We need to develop–you know, get it where we’re both super happy with it.”
Rogue Squadron was reportedly shelved a few weeks before it was to enter pre-production, with a previous draft by Matthew Robinson. That happened in the fall of 2021, once it became clear that Jenkins’ allegiance was with Warner Bros. and Wonder Woman 3. That movie was eventually also scrapped once James Gunn took over DC Studios and restarted the entire machinery.
Shortly after that announcement was made, Patty Jenkins said on social media that she was back working for Lucasfilm on Rogue Squadron, but reports from a few months later and Kathleen Kennedy herself hinted that this wasn’t really happening. Kennedy said in an interview during Star Wars Celebration:
“It’s not an abandoned project, it just didn’t happen… Rogue Squadron, that definitely is something that we still talk about. Whether it’s a movie, or whether it ends up being in the series space, that’s definitely something.”
In May, a few days into the WGA strike, she followed up: “Lando is still on the books, and Rogue Squadron is still on the books. We just want them to be great.” Lando was shortly thereafter announced as a feature film, after Stephen Glover slipped in a podcast interview, and it seems like Rogue Squadron was also suffering the same fate back then, with the studio revisiting it.
However, Lucasfilm’s priorities at the moment are Jon Favreau’s The Mandalorian & Grogu, which will film this summer in California, and New Jedi Order (w/t), the Daisy Ridley-led movie that takes place 15 years after The Rise of Skywalker. Other projects that remain in development include James Mangold’s Dawn of the Jedi (w/t), which he will get to after he wraps the Bob Dylan biopic that starts shooting this month, Taika Waititi’s untitled Star Wars film, which he will hopefully tackle after Klara and the Sun, also shooting this spring, Shawn Levy’s untitled film, which he will also develop after Deadpool 3 comes out (though not necessarily immediately after, as there could be another project in between), and the aforementioned Lando movie, of which we know nothing.
The next Star Wars movie is currently scheduled for May 22, 2026.
Miguel Fernández is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings, but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as movies from Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.
