Dawn of the Jedi Lands Beau Willimon as a writer

Beau Willimon

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Beau Willimon goes from House of cards To my grandfather’s house.

A playwright and screenwriter were hired to work on the script Star Wars: Dawn of the JediIt is a film produced by Lucasfilm and is scheduled to be directed by James Mangold.

Willimon is joining Mangold to write the script for the project, which will trace the origins of the Force and be set 25,000 years before any of the timelines and stories told by the films and shows thus far.

Dawn of the Jedia working title, was first revealed almost exactly a year ago, at the final Star Wars Celebration, held in London in April 2023.

“When I first started talking to Cathy (Kennedy) about doing one of these pictures, what came to me was thinking about what kind of film it was. star Wars “I wanted to do it,” Mangold said at the time. “And I thought about the biblical epic, like The Ten Commandments, about the dawn of power. Where did power come from, when did we discover it, when did we learn how to use it?

Project, like most star Wars The Initiatives, however, have been kept under a Sith shroud of secrecy ever since.

The feature doesn’t have a release date, but Mangold is expected to turn his attention to it Dawn of the Jedi After it wraps Completely anonymous, a biographical film about Bob Dylan that stars Timothée Chalamet and is produced by Disney’s Searchlight Pictures arm. the next star Wars It is scheduled to be a movie The Mandalorian and Groguwhich on Friday received a May 22, 2026 release date.

Dawn of the Jedi This is not the first time Willimon has been in hyperspace. The writer worked on the first season of Andorfamous and Emmy Award nominated star Wars The series focused on the character played by Diego Luna. Willimon wrote three episodes, including the prison break episode “One Way Out.” The episode earned Willimon an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series and included the heartbreaking line “I can’t swim” uttered by Andy Serkis.

The writer is known for his dramatic prowess and his work has political flavors and deals with themes of power. House of cards Set in the halls of Washington, D.C., the series was one of the most popular series of the mid-2010s, helping put Netflix on the map as a destination for original TV. He also co-wrote the political thriller for George Clooney and Ryan Gosling March idea and created the Hulu space drama the first.

He is repped by WME and Schreck Rose.