“New Jedi Order” Writer Talks His Approach

The other week came the news that “The Bourne Ultimatum” scribe George Nolfi had been set to pen the screenplay for the new Daisy Ridley-centric “Star Wars” movie dubbed “New Jedi Order”.

Pakistani-Canadian documentary filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy remains attached to direct the project while Ridley is reprising the role of Rey Skywalker in a story set around 15 years after “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”.

Nolfi takes over from Damon Lindelof and Justin Britt-Gibson who were the first attached. After they left, “Peaky Blinders” creator Steven Knight but he subsequently exited last year with Nolfi now taking over the gig.

Nolfi is currently out doing press rounds for the Anthony Mackie-led movie “Elevation” which hit Amazon Prime Video this weekend. Speaking with British outlet Film Stories (via SWNewsNet), the writer was asked his approach and he revealed he’ll be building on ideas left by the previous scribes:

“The way I approach it is, you look at what’s come before you, you look at the broad ideas of what they want to do. Meaning: Lucasfilm, Disney, Sharmeen [Obaid-Chinoy], the director, and then you do what a writer does, and try to try and put beats of a story together. Try and imagine characters, and then you present that with an understanding that it needs to honour, obviously, a long, incredible tradition.

If you think about George Lucas, the six movies that he did, and the universe that he created, it’s actually very steeped in broad notions of politics. It’s not talking about today, per se, but there’s the Empire’s Nazism slash Roman Empire.

The democracy of the Roman Empire collapsing and becoming an empire and the perennial story of human beings organising themselves and against chaos, and then the tools that help human societies tamp down on chaos becomes oppression.

So that is really very core to what I think George Lucas was trying to talk about. And one of the wonderful things about science fiction and Star Wars – which is more almost science fantasy or space opera – is that you can raise the deepest issues without it feeling like a philosophy class, or a political science class, or something I read in the newspaper today.”

Nolfi has previously indicated that the “Star Wars” films led to a major subconscious desire within him to become a filmmaker. If this is more of a polish than a full rewrite, the film could potentially gear up and head into production soon.

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