1 hour ago · Global
Taika Waititi’s Star Wars film is the latest to hit the buffers. At some point Lucasfilm is going to have to actually make a movie
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SignalsMonitor is following this as a conflict story. The Guardian UK is the outlet attached so far. The reports are tied to Global. The first report grouped here was at 23 Oct 2026, 10:39 UTC. The headline in use is “Taika Waititi’s Star Wars film is the latest to hit the buffers. At some point Lucasfilm is going to have to actually make a movie”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
Waititi joins a long list of movie-makers who were expected to bring a new direction to the franchise, before the studio appeared to get cold feet Movie-making these days is a very expensive endeavour. In 1977, George Lucas’s Star Wars cost $11m to make, which would be approximately $60m in…
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