'Because it will be at the heart of creating the new Jedi Order, so to get a real sense of where that might have began with the dawn of the Jedi could be pretty cool.' Dave Filoni's Star Wars movie
'I think it's a really nice complement to what we're doing with moving into the future with Rey, and then understanding a bit more of where this all came from,' she said. 'From the moment I stepped in and George brought me into the company, there's been a lot of interest in that,' Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy told us back in June. Where did the Force come from? When did we discover it? When did we learn how to use it?' 'And I thought about a biblical epic, like a Ten Commandments, about the dawning of the Force.
'When I first started talking to about doing one of these pictures, what occurred to me was thinking about what kind of genre of movie within Star Wars I wanted to do,' Mangold said on the Celebration Stage, after the film was announced. Indiana Jones 5 director James Mangold is working on a film that will be set thousands of years in the past, focusing on the first Jedi.