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  • ‘Star Wars’ movie in the works from ‘Watchmen’ producer Damon Lindelof

    By ANI

    WASHINGTON: ‘Watchmen’ producer Damon Lindelof is developing a new “Star Wars” movie for Lucasfilm, and the ‘Ms Marvel’ helmer, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is in talks to direct.

    According to Variety, Lindelof and an unnamed co-writer will collaborate on the next film. If the idea is approved, it will be his fourth attempt to revive a significant sci-fi brand.

    In addition to Lindelof’s innovative continuation of “Watchmen” for HBO in 2019 — for which he won Emmys for writing and limited series — Lindelof produced “Star Trek” in 2009, “Star Trek Into Darkness” in 2013, and “Prometheus,” the prequel to “Alien” in 2012.

    As per the reports of Variety, the project’s announcement comes as Lucasfilm faces a decision about “Star Wars.” Despite the studio’s live-action series for Disney+, such as “The Mandalorian,” “The Book of Boba Fett,” “Obi-Wan Kenobi,” and “Andor,” enjoying significant popularity, it hasn’t released a movie in theatres since 2019’s “The Rise of Skywalker.”

    According to Variety, Rogue Squadron was scheduled to be released in December 2023, and Patty Jenkins was announced as the film’s director in 2020. However, Disney removed the movie from its release schedule in September.

    Currently, only one undisclosed “Star Wars” picture has a release date; none of the other “Star Wars” film projects is in various stages of development and some from directors like Taika Waititi, Rian Johnson, and Kevin Feige, have even been formally revealed.

    Johnson recently revealed to Variety that his envisioned “Star Wars” trilogy is still in the works, but that he must first finish the production of his “Knives Out” films.

    Michael Waldron (“Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness”) revealed to Variety in May that he had begun writing a “Star Wars” story that Feige would produce. However, Waldron has already been hired to write “Avengers: Secret Wars,” so his dance card will get highly full.

    The short documentaries “Saving Face” and “A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness” were directed by Obaid-Chinoy, a two-time Oscar winner. Most recently, she was the director of two episodes of “Ms Marvel” on Disney Plus.

    WASHINGTON: ‘Watchmen’ producer Damon Lindelof is developing a new “Star Wars” movie for Lucasfilm, and the ‘Ms Marvel’ helmer, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is in talks to direct.

    According to Variety, Lindelof and an unnamed co-writer will collaborate on the next film. If the idea is approved, it will be his fourth attempt to revive a significant sci-fi brand.

    In addition to Lindelof’s innovative continuation of “Watchmen” for HBO in 2019 — for which he won Emmys for writing and limited series — Lindelof produced “Star Trek” in 2009, “Star Trek Into Darkness” in 2013, and “Prometheus,” the prequel to “Alien” in 2012.

    As per the reports of Variety, the project’s announcement comes as Lucasfilm faces a decision about “Star Wars.” Despite the studio’s live-action series for Disney+, such as “The Mandalorian,” “The Book of Boba Fett,” “Obi-Wan Kenobi,” and “Andor,” enjoying significant popularity, it hasn’t released a movie in theatres since 2019’s “The Rise of Skywalker.”

    According to Variety, Rogue Squadron was scheduled to be released in December 2023, and Patty Jenkins was announced as the film’s director in 2020. However, Disney removed the movie from its release schedule in September.

    Currently, only one undisclosed “Star Wars” picture has a release date; none of the other “Star Wars” film projects is in various stages of development and some from directors like Taika Waititi, Rian Johnson, and Kevin Feige, have even been formally revealed.

    Johnson recently revealed to Variety that his envisioned “Star Wars” trilogy is still in the works, but that he must first finish the production of his “Knives Out” films.

    Michael Waldron (“Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness”) revealed to Variety in May that he had begun writing a “Star Wars” story that Feige would produce. However, Waldron has already been hired to write “Avengers: Secret Wars,” so his dance card will get highly full.

    The short documentaries “Saving Face” and “A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness” were directed by Obaid-Chinoy, a two-time Oscar winner. Most recently, she was the director of two episodes of “Ms Marvel” on Disney Plus.

  • Olivia Harrison writes poems about late George Harrison

    By Associated Press

    NEW YORK: Olivia Harrison, widow of Beatle George Harrison and a philanthropist and film producer, has a few words of her own to share.

    She has written 20 original poems about her late husband for the book “Came the Lightening,” which comes out June 21. “Came the Lightening” also will include photographs and images of mementos and will have an introduction by Martin Scorsese, who directed a 2011 documentary about George Harrison.

    “Olivia evokes the most fleeting gestures and instants, plucked from the flow of time and memory and felt through her choice of words and the overall rhythm,” Scorsese writes. “She might have done an oral history or a memoir. Instead, she composed a work of poetic autobiography.”

    Olivia Arias met George Harrison in the mid-1970s while she worked in the marketing department of A&M Records, which distributed Harrison’s Dark Horse label. They married in 1978, a month after the birth of their son, Dhani. George Harrison died of cancer, at age 58, in 2001.

  • America’s Producer’s Guild honours Irrfan Khan but misspells his name

    By PTI
    LOS ANGELES: The 2021 edition of the Producer’s Guild of America (PGA) Awards honoured the late Indian star Irrfan Khan during its “In Memoriam” segment but got his name wrong.

    The awards, considered as an Oscar bellwether, were held virtually on Wednesday.

    Khan was among the 21 cine personalities who were remembered during the ceremony’s “In Memoriam” segment.

    However, the pre-taped production of the awards committed a gaffe with the actor’s name as it read ‘Irrif Kahn’ instead of Irrfan Khan, reported Variety.

    Another typo was spotted when the name of “Minari” star Steven Yeun, who was one of the presenters at the event, was misspelled as ‘Steven Yuen’.

    Khan, who straddled both Indian and international cinema with equal elan, died in April 2020 at the age of 54 following a two year-long battle with a rare form of cancer.

    In Hollywood, he featured in blockbusters such as “Inferno”, “A Mighty Heart”, “Life of Pi”, “Amazing Spider-Man” and “Jurassic World”.

    The “In Memoriam” segment of PGA Awards also paid to tributes to Hollywood great Kirk Douglas, who died at the age of 103 in February 2020, and “Black Panther” star Chadwick Boseman, who passed away in August at 43 after a private four-year-long battle with cancer.

    Other prominent names in the segment included Harry Bring, Sue Bruce-Smith, Allan Burns, Kevin Burns, Stuart Cornfeld, Charles Gordon, Buck Henry, Thomas L Miller, Tom Pollock, Rebecca Ramsey, Carl Reiner, Gene Reynolds, Pamela Ross, Ronald Schwary, Lynn Shelton, Fred Silverman and Jamie Tarses.