Lucasfilm commissioned multiple Star Wars projects, leading to several cancellations, including Rogue Squadron, Rangers of the New Republic, and a planned Game of Thrones–developed trilogy. Damon Lindelof developed a Star Wars movie during a two-year period when Lucasfilm hired him to develop a new feature. He said he was asked what a Star Wars movie should be, then hired, and later fired after two years. He stated the film would have continued with Rey, Finn, and Poe while reframing the Light and Dark Sides of the Force. He described nostalgia and revision as competing forces and proposed a “Protestant Reformation inside Star Wars.”
"Just to talk about the banana in the room. I was fired off of a Star Wars movie. 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."
"According to Lindelof, the movie would've still followed Rey, Finn, and Poe, but it would have reframed the Light and Dark Sides of the Force. There is a force of nostalgia, and there is a force of revision, and they are at odds with one another. Let's do the Protestant Reformation inside Star Wars."
"A side effect of Lucasfilm commissioning so many Star Wars projects is that there are now a whole lot of canceled Star Wars projects. Six years ago, the company announced a Rogue Squadron movie directed by Patty Jenkins, only for the project to be shoved to the back burner. Rangers of the New Republic was supposed to be a spinoff of The Mandalorian, but that fell apart, too."
"At one point, the showrunners of Game of Thrones were developing an entire trilogy, but that was also shelved after the Thrones finale underwhelmed viewers. Maybe it's for the best that some of these projects were canceled, but it's always fascinating to know what could have happened."
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