Taika Waititi circling a new sci-fi project to direct, but his ‘Star Wars’ movie remains very much on the cards

Lucasfilm has made it a habit of announcing countless Star Wars projects – often with creative talent attached – and then proceeding to absolutely nothing with them, with close to 20 filmmakers having come and gone in the last decade alone. Unfortunately for his haters, though, Taika Waititi’s movie isn’t one of them.

Kathleen Kennedy was happy to toss in-development projects from Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins and Marvel Cinematic Universe maestro Kevin Feige onto the trash pile, but the polarizing presence behind Thor: Love and Thunder saw his project survive the cull, and it seems to be gaining more momentum than it has for a while.

Even though the Lucasfilm boss hinted that Waititi isn’t willing to play with others, he continues to beaver away on his contributions to a galaxy far, far away. However, some of his more vocal detractors were given a ray of hope when Deadline reported he was circling sci-fi literary adaptation Klara and the Sun as his next effort from behind the camera, but there’s a caveat sure to leave them crushingly disappointed.

Not only is it revealed that the Academy Award winner is planning to tackle the ambitious novel as well as Star Wars, all signs point to the latter shooting next year. The prospect of Waititi writing, directing, and possibly even producing and starring in a vanity project set in the legendary property could go one of two ways, because there’s literally no chance it ends up being deemed as perfectly acceptable, no more or no less.