{"id":362334,"date":"2025-11-07T14:13:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T14:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/362334\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T14:13:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T14:13:14","slug":"sigourney-weaver-has-an-optimistic-take-on-the-future-of-star-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/362334\/","title":{"rendered":"Sigourney Weaver Has an Optimistic Take on the Future of ‘Star Wars’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Few people know as much about franchises as Sigourney Weaver. The Oscar-nominated legend currently has three big ones<\/a> under her belt\u2014Ghostbusters, Alien<\/a>, and Avatar\u2014and next year, she\u2019s adding a fourth<\/a>: Star Wars. \u201cIt was not my intention to find a fourth franchise,\u201d Weaver recently said. \u201cI didn\u2019t ever imagine that I would enter the Star Wars world.\u201d<\/p>\n

What changed? Well, Weaver is one of the new additions in next year\u2019s Star Wars film, The Mandalorian and Grogu. And, in an excellent interview with Empire<\/a>, Weaver explains why she decided to go to a galaxy far, far away.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s always the script,\u201d Weaver said. \u201cSo [with] The Mandalorian and Grogu, it was not my intention to find a fourth franchise, I didn\u2019t ever imagine that I would enter the Star Wars world. But what\u2019s interesting about Star Wars now is they\u2019re no longer trying to do the Star Wars to end all Star Wars. They\u2019re letting the universe exist, and tell[ing] really interesting stories within that.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s certainly a nice way to put things in regard to Star Wars, isn\u2019t it? For the past few years (and kind of kick-started by the reaction to Rian Johnson\u2019s <\/a>The Last Jedi), the franchise has floundered trying to find its footing. And maybe that\u2019s because, as Weaver said, they were always trying to find \u201cthe Star Wars to end all Star Wars.\u201d (Star Peace? We digress.) And so, by focusing the story\u2014like with The Mandalorian and Grogu and the seemingly separate Star Wars: Starfighter\u2014Weaver is suggesting staying outside the box will be the key to reinvigorating the franchise.<\/p>\n

As for her role, Weaver credits the film\u2019s writer and director, Jon Favreau, with bringing her in. \u201cI think Jon Favreau thought, \u2018Okay, we want this very strong character. Let\u2019s make it a woman,’\u201d Weaver said. \u201cI\u2019m not sure it was supposed to be a woman. I think again, these days, they often think, \u2018What do I need to do to make this seem more timely?\u2019 and now, because women are doing everything, hooray for us. [But] I just fell in love with the script and said, \u2018I don\u2019t know anything about this world.\u2019 Jon said, \u2018Well, you can watch the series,\u2019 and I said, \u2018Oh, there\u2019s a series?!’\u201d<\/p>\n

That, right there, is why Weaver\u2019s perspective on Star Wars is so interesting. She didn\u2019t even know this movie was based on a TV series. She\u2019s coming at it with fresh eyes. And if she thinks this movie puts things on the right path, that\u2019s certainly encouraging.<\/p>\n

Weaver can next be seen in Avatar: Fire and Ash, in theaters December 19. The Mandalorian and Grogu opens on May 22, 2026.<\/p>\n

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Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Few people know as much about franchises as Sigourney Weaver. The Oscar-nominated legend currently has three big ones…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":362335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[171,160301,53,175789,14398,131014,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-362334","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-jon-favreau","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-sigourney-weaver","12":"tag-star-wars","13":"tag-the-mandalorian-and-grogu","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115508832252548163","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}