By Lucasfilm’s first screen experiment to go back in time before the “Star Wars” prequels with “The Acolyte” last year may have fizzled, but that’s not stopping them from trying again.
James Mangold remains at work on a ‘Dawn of the Jedi’ film set some 25,000 years earlier, and now a ner rumor has cropped up suggesting one beloved property within the franchise could be coming to screen.
Scooper DanielRPK (via CBM reports that Lucasfilm is developing a show set during the era of the famed “Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic” video game. The scoop implies it likely won’t be a direct adaptation of the game, but could very well include characters and rework elements of it as events of the game aren’t part of the current “Star Wars” canon.
BioWare developed the game which unfolds four millennia before ‘A New Hope’ and begins as Darth Malak, a Dark Lord of the Sith, has unleashed a Sith armada against the Republic. Malak’s aggression has left the Jedi scattered and vulnerable with many Jedi Knights having either fallen or sworn allegiance to Malak.
The Jedi player must venture to different planets in the galaxy in order to defeat Malak. The game, first released in 2003, was unanimously praised and is often cited as one of the greatest video games ever made. A remake by Saber Interactive is still said to be in the works despite multiple setbacks.
Rumors of a screen adaptation emerged in 2019 with Kathleen Kennedy saying at the time “we are developing something to look at”. Laeta Kalogridis was also rumored to have been hired to pen a script but nothing further ever developed.
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