{"id":305413,"date":"2026-01-27T02:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T02:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/305413\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T02:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T02:42:08","slug":"taika-waititi-gives-intriguing-update-on-new-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/305413\/","title":{"rendered":"Taika Waititi Gives Intriguing Update on New Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lucasfilm\u2019s untitled\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comingsoon.net\/tag\/star-wars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Star Wars<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0movie from Thor: Ragnarok director\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.comingsoon.net\/tag\/taika-waititi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>Taika Waititi<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0has finally received a new update, teasing the filmmaker\u2019s vision for the story. This comes more than five years after the project was first announced.<\/p>\n<p>What did Taika Waititi say about his Star Wars movie?<\/p>\n<p>During a recent interview with Variety, Waititi has opened up about his long-in-development Star Wars movie, revealing that he wants to deliver something a bit more different from the franchise\u2019s existing slate. However, he also wants to bring back some of the magic from the original Star Wars films, where the story can be fun and serious at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just trying to go back and harness a little bit more of the fun from the original films, which is what I remember [from] them,\u201d Waititi explained. \u201cThe stakes are very high, and there\u2019s serious things going on, but there\u2019s also a lot of fun to be had in those films. That\u2019s what I was trying to bring back. I was trying to work in a world that was a little bit separate to that because they\u2019ve got so many things going on within that space. For me to do something there, it would need to be a little different and a little bit more its own thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In July of 2025, a report suggested that the untitled project might have been given the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.superherohype.com\/movies\/615998-star-wars-taika-waititi-shawn-levy-movies-get-exciting-updates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">working title<\/a>\u00a0of Cosmic Doom and would reportedly be made under the production name of Ghost Truck 6. The Oscar-winning filmmaker will be directing from a screenplay written by Oscar-nominated scribe Tony McNamara. Former Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy recently described\u00a0Waititi\u2019s latest script\u00a0as \u201chilarious and great.\u201d At the moment, further details about its plot and characters are still under wraps.<\/p>\n<p>(Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/news\/taika-waititi-star-wars-thor-avengers-doomsday-1236640037\/#recipient_hashed=3a3baf33fde74a0cf9fc3af244dd666d88a51fe84dd964875093b5a98d5764b6&amp;recipient_salt=920d8b92feb07303a242938a23f9992cf27f3e5e076fcc9aa292a484a5828153&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=exacttarget&amp;utm_campaign=newsalert&amp;utm_content=660118_01-24-2026&amp;utm_term=10030496?utm_medium=&amp;utm_source=&amp;utm_campaign=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_id=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Variety<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Originally reported by Maggie Dela Paz for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.superherohype.com\/movies\/648922-star-wars-update-taika-waititi-movie-will-be-its-own-thing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SuperHeroHype<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lucasfilm\u2019s untitled\u00a0Star Wars\u00a0movie from Thor: Ragnarok director\u00a0Taika Waititi\u00a0has finally received a new update, teasing the filmmaker\u2019s vision for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,42317,1892,8127,39178],"class_list":{"0":"post-305413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-lucasfilm","13":"tag-movie-news","14":"tag-star-wars","15":"tag-taika-waititi"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115964762167837087","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}