Confusion has surfaced on-line surrounding Donald Glover’s upcoming Lando film, which was initially introduced to be a Disney+ sequence earlier than being retooled into a movie last year.
The confusion stems from some poor aggregating of a brand new interview with Simien speaking concerning the scrapped sequence. Nonetheless, Simien hasn’t been concerned within the upcoming Lando undertaking for effectively over a 12 months at this level and was merely speaking concerning the iteration that was already identified to not be transferring ahead.
“It was fairly developed,” Simien informed Collider of the undertaking. “There was a Bible. There was idea artwork. There have been scripts. But it surely simply wasn’t meant to be.”
Nonetheless, once more, this isn’t something new. It was revealed in June 2023 that Simien was off the Lando sequence, with Donald Glover and his brother, Stephen Glover, taking over creative duties and writing the undertaking. It was then introduced in September 2023 that it would be a movie quite than a sequence.
Glover gave an replace on Lando earlier this year, saying that he was glad to have the ability to have management over the undertaking and that it permits for “the imaginative and prescient to be singular.” In consequence, Glover is aware of that Lando will likely be good.
The actor beforehand performed the position of Lando Calrissian within the 2018 film Solo: A Star Wars Story.