Mangold's Dawn of the Jedi Not About Jedi? Director Clarifies Movie Concept

At this year's Star Wars Celebration, three new films set in the Star Wars universe were announced. Recent weeks have given us more and more details about them. Among the announced titles was a work of James Mangold, which - at least on the surface - was supposed to tell the story of the first Jedi. Meanwhile, as it has just turned out, the center of the story need not be the legendary knights at all.

Dawn of the Jedi was initially described as a show set some 25,000 years before the events known from A New Hope. This, along with the suggestive title of the work, suggested that the main plot would be the origin of the Jedi Order. The matter was clarified by James Mangold.

In an interview with Gizmodo the filmmaker discussed the concept of Dawn of the Jedi. The plot of the movie will be about the Force, a mysterious force present throughout the universe, and its first users who were not knights.

It should be noted, therefore, that if the movie tells the story of the origins of the Force, the story could take place even many thousands of years before the rise of the first Jedi. In addition, the title of the show itself has not yet been officially announced. Dawn of the Jedi is only the name of the era in which events will take place. In turn, this period goes back much further than the very beginnings of the Order.

It is also worth mentioning that at Star Wars Celebration the director mentioned his inspiration from The Ten Commandments from 1956, announcing that his work will be, in a sense, a biblical show.

At this point, the exact release date of Mangold's movie is unknown.

Kamil Kleszyk

Kamil Kleszyk

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