Damon Lindelof said he was fired from a planned Star Wars movie after spending two years developing a story. He described being hired after answering what a Star Wars movie should be, then being removed later. He said the screenplay, developed with Justin Britt-Gibson and Rayna McClendon, aimed to portray an ideological divide among fans. The story would have presented nostalgia and revision as opposing forces within Star Wars. Lindelof compared the intended approach to a Protestant Reformation inside the franchise. He said the attempt did not feel risky enough and ultimately did not work.
"“I was fired off of a Star Wars movie,” he said. “They asked me, 'What do you think a Star Wars movie should be?' And I said, 'Here's what it should be.' And they said, 'Great, you're hired.' And then two years later, I was fired. And so I was wrong, at least through that prism.”"
"“What we were attempting to do was to have this conversation in the movie, which is to say there is a Force of nostalgia and there is a Force of revision, and they are at odds with one another, and let's do the Protestant Reformation inside Star Wars, and it didn't work,” said the Watchmen showrunner."
"“You have your cake and eat it too. The conversation that the fandom is having, without winking and looking at the audience, that didn't feel necessarily that risky.”"
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