James Mangold remains hard at work on a Star Wars movie set 25,000 years in the past and, in a new interview, the filmmaker explains how that's freed him from lore and fan expectations. Check it

James Mangold, who just picked up a Directors Guild of America nomination for “A Complete Unknown,” recently told MovieWeb that his upcoming “Star Wars” movie is deliberately set thousands of years before any other movie in the long-running franchise so that he doesn’t have to deal with the canon and can thus avoid angering fans.

"The Star Wars movie would be taking place 25,000 years before any known Star Wars movies takes place," he told MovieWeb. "It's an area and a playground that I've always [wanted t

I t's been almost two years since Star Wars Celebration 2023 brought us the news that James Mangold, director of Logan, Le Mans '66, and Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny, is