Stand-Alone Movies Avatar Producer Laeta Kalogridis writing Knights Of The Old Republic film

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A movie based on Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic — the beloved video game first released in 2003 — is currently being written by Laeta Kalogridis (Avatar, Shutter Island) for Lucasfilm, three sources close to the project told BuzzFeed News.

The project should be welcome news to the Star Wars fandom, who may be feeling beaten down after Solo's disappointing box office led Lucasfilm to reevaluate the franchise's ambitions and scale back the studio's release schedule. Knights of the Old Republic, nicknamed KOTOR by its devotees, is a role-playing game about Jedi versus the Sith set nearly 4,000 years before the events of 1977's Star Wars: A New Hope. Fans have long yearned for its rich story to be adapted to film.

At Star Wars Celebration in April, Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy told MTV News, "Yes, we are developing something to look at," after being asked about KOTOR. "Right now, I have no idea where things might fall."

Kalogridis is close to finishing the first script of a potential KOTOR trilogy, according to the three sources. She is the first woman writer of a Star Wars movie since The Empire Strikes Back in 1980, when Leigh Brackett received a cowriting credit with Lawrence Kasdan. Lucasfilm has been criticized for hiring only white men to shepherd the world of Star Wars.

Representatives for Kalogridis, Lucasfilm, and Disney did not respond to BuzzFeed News' requests for comment.

Disney announced earlier this month that after J.J. Abrams' new Star Wars movie — The Rise of Skywalker, which will close out the nine-film Skywalker family saga in December — the next film in the franchise will be released in December 2022. That film, by Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, will be the first of a new trilogy, and, according to Disney, will come out "pre-Christmas weekend every other year."

While there are many corners of the formidable Star Wars internet that have speculated that Benioff and Weiss will be the stewards of KOTOR, Kalogridis was hired in spring 2018 to develop the property.

In the KOTOR game, the player helps fight an uprising against the Republic led by the villainous Darth Malak, a Sith Lord. The player eventually joins forces with Bastila Shan, a Jedi Knight and one of the most revered women characters in the Star Wars extended universe. The story has Wookiees, droids, the Jedi Academy, and the Force — a wealth of material to be mined.

Collider's Jeff Sneider also believes the report is legit.

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A representative for Disney/Lucasfilm declined to comment, while representatives for Kalogridis did not immediately respond to a request for comment. I typically like to confirm major news like this on my own, but given the secrecy surrounding Star Wars and the fact that it is coming from a well-respected journalist like Kate Aurthur, who confirmed her info with three separate sources, I’m willing to bet it’s legit.

 

[Karelia]

Oh man, how epic and awesome this could turn out. And also how it might turn into another divisive film.

Revan/Malak is something I've always wanted to see on the big screen (or small at this point.) Who do you guys see in the respective roles? Keanu Reeves has a bit of a campaign for him to be Revan, I could see them going for Kit Harrington. That is, if Disney doesn't gender swap Revan and make it that "ohhh shocking" moment like in the game. They did it in Solo (Enfys Nest) and nobody really was shocked nor cared. It was established in Legends he was a male, but Disney...

One thing I really liked about KOTOR was the OST. Malak's theme gets the blood going, I'd love for them to keep it and put it in the film.

Really curious if the GoT guys end up directing this, it seems they tend to do better with source material rather than create from scratch. I think they could pull off a KOTOR adaptation well.

 

[Pennywise]

Oh man, how epic and awesome this could turn out. And also how it might turn into another divisive film.

Revan/Malak is something I've always wanted to see on the big screen (or small at this point.) Who do you guys see in the respective roles? Keanu Reeves has a bit of a campaign for him to be Revan, I could see them going for Kit Harrington. That is, if Disney doesn't gender swap Revan and make it that "ohhh shocking" moment like in the game. They did it in Solo (Enfys Nest) and nobody really was shocked nor cared. It was established in Legends he was a male, but Disney...

One thing I really liked about KOTOR was the OST. Malak's theme gets the blood going, I'd love for them to keep it and put it in the film.

Really curious if the GoT guys end up directing this, it seems they tend to do better with source material rather than create from scratch. I think they could pull off a KOTOR adaptation well.

Agree 100%!

 

[Pennywise]

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