Star Wars: Rogue Squadron movie back on the cards with Patty Jenkins

Patty Jenkins’ shelved Star Wars: Rogue Squadron movie is apparently back on the table at Lucasfilm following the cancellation of Wonder Woman 3.

Lucasfilm originally announced a Rogue Squadron movie with Jenkins at the helm in 2020, but pulled the project from its schedule in 2022 thanks to the director’s commitments elsewhere – which is to say, her plan to direct Wonder Woman 3 for the DC Extended Universe. That threequel was subsequently canned as part of James Gunn and Peter Safran’s shake-up of the DCEU, leaving the door open for Jenkins to return to a galaxy far, far away.

Rogue Squadron is slated to follow a new generation of starfighter pilots in a sort of Top Gun-meets-Star Wars mash-up inspired by Jenkins’ late father, a former U.S. Air Force pilot who flew in the Vietnam war. Speaking to Ben Mankiewicz on the TCM/Max podcast Talking Pictures (via Collider), Jenkins says that she’s now signed an agreement with Disney and Lucasfilm to restart work on the project.

“When I left Star Wars to do Wonder Woman 3, I thought maybe I'll come back to Star Wars after Wonder Woman 3,” Jenkins explained. “So we did a deal for that to happen, started a deal, but I thought I was doing Wonder Woman. When that went away, Lucasfilm and I were like, oh, we gotta finish this deal. We finished the deal right as the [writers'] strike was happening. So I now owe a draft of Star Wars and so we will see what happens there. You know, like, who knows?

“It's hard, they have a hard job in front of them of what's the first movie they're gonna do. They have other directors who have been working, but… I'm back on doing Rogue Squadron and we'll see what happens. We need to develop, you know, get it to where we're both super happy with it.”

Rogue Squadron returns to the Star Wars cinematic slate alongside three other movies currently in production: James Mangold’s project focusing on the dawn of the Jedi Order; Dave Filoni’s Mando-verse finale; and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s Rise of Skywalker sequel that will see Rey (Daisy Ridley) building a new Jedi Order.

Lucasfilm has yet to announce release dates for any of those films, but Jenkins’ comments suggest the studio is still weighing up which to start with. In any case, it likely won’t be Rogue Squadron that arrives in cinemas first.

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