Greater than two and a half years in the past, Disney+made the attainable mistake of going broadly public with its intentions to ship a Lando TV collection, with Donald Glover believed to be reprising the function he delivered to prequelized life in Solo: A Star Wars Story. It’s been a protracted and quiet highway from then to now, with EP and story author Justin Simien not too long ago drawing consideration to the shortage of ahead progress in that part of the galaxy. However regardless of all of the frustration and disappointment that Simien’s replace might have precipitated, I’m most likely extra hopeful now than any level previously two years that Lando might really come collectively.
Justin Simien’s Lando Replace
For many who aren’t but conscious, Simien spoke with TheDirect about his upcoming big-screen effort, Disney’s The Haunted Mansion, and was requested about the place issues have been at with Lando. He made it sound like followers would have a greater shot of trapping the Hatbox Ghost than of seeing the playboy pilot heading up his personal streaming present. In keeping with the Pricey White Folks director, that announcement was the start and the top of his most present data, as he claimed he has “not acquired an replace since that replace.” He continued, saying:
I actually poured my coronary heart and spent a variety of time working with them to place collectively a extremely nice present. It seems like all people loves it. And, you recognize, I used to be advised we needed to put a pause on it due to scheduling, and the subsequent replace I acquired [was in 2020], some years in the past. So I do not know, I do not know what is going on on with it.
Whereas it isn’t clear precisely how a lot of Lando was crafted by Justin Simien and different members of his artistic crew, however it appears like a minimum of an overview was crafted, if not one thing of a working pilot script. And so for all intents and functions, it looks like Disney’s brass does not have very a lot standing in the way in which of Lando‘s growth course of beginning up once more, aside from the supply of its presumed star Donald Glover. And although he is additionally needed to play very coy about leaping again into Lando Calrissian mode within the Star Wars universe, he did deal with it very briefly again in April 2023, saying that Lucasfilm boss Kathleen Kennedy would maul him if he shared extra. And for what it is value, Kennedy herself hinted in 2022 that Glover was the one which “holds all of the playing cards” relating to this undertaking.
So when would possibly he be capable of stack these playing cards up into the form of a home in Cloud Metropolis? Probably very quickly, assuming he does not signal on to hitch upcoming sequels within the Quick & Livid and Avatar franchises.
Donald Glover Might Quickly Really Have The Time To Make Lando
Again when Disney+ introduced Lando alongside a slew of different tasks, Donald Glover nonetheless hadn’t but been in a position to get Atlanta Season 3’s manufacturing off the bottom, on account of COVID delays and restrictions. The third and fourth seasons of the acclaimed FX comedy have been filmed again to again all through a lot of 2021, and it was confirmed these would spherical out the collection’ full run, with each airing to additional reward in 2022. So barring any Paper Boi spinoffs in working, Glover undoubtedly will not have any Atlanta-based commitments on the horizon.
Within the midst of all that, Glover has additionally been closely invested (alongside Francesca Sloane) within the creation of Amazon Studios’ upcoming Mr. and Mrs. Smith, a reboot of the Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie function of the identical identify. The Thriller Crew vet was initially partnered with Phoebe Waller-Bridge for the collection, however she exited the undertaking seven months later over artistic variations, and that function was later stuffed by PEN15‘s Maya Erskine. After a reasonably lengthy span of ready for extra updates from that undertaking, a sizzle reel for upcoming Prime Video movies and reveals delivered our very first seems to be, albeit in very transient type. So it stands to motive that Mr. and Mrs. Smith will make its streaming debut earlier than 2023 has concluded.
If that is the case, then Donald Glover might conceivably in the end have the time on his schedule to dedicate to a Lando undertaking, whether or not it’s an episodic collection, a one-off particular, or a function. And assuming he genuinely does need to leap again into the function once more, one can then assume that Kathleen Kennedy and others at Disney and Lucasfilm would leap on the likelihood to place issues in movement. (Clearly the WGA writers strike and the SAG-AFTRA strike increase some pertinent hurdles, however hopefully these offers will get made sooner slightly than later.)
Technically, the one factor that Glover would have on the way in which could be returning to the function of Troy for the Group film, and Joel McHale appears satisfied the actor will return. However that doubtless will not be too arduous a dedication, except Disney+ instantly turns into the most recent service to resurrect the fan-fave comedy, and will get in the way in which of its personal Lando undertaking. Whereas ready to see the place issues are going, try all of the upcoming Star Wars tasks that we find out about.
