By A year ago came the news from the Star Wars Celebration convention in London that multiple new “Star Wars” films were in the works including one to be directed by “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” helmer James Mangold.
That project was being dubbed as taking place in the “Dawn of the Jedi” era of the “Star Wars” timeline and would be roughly set some 25,000 years before the events of “Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace”.
So while the film doesn’t have an official title yet, as shorthand people have been dubbing it “Dawn of the Jedi”. As Mangold has been at work on his Bob Dylan biopic in recent months, there’s been little in the way of updates about this.
Now, speaking with SFX (via SFFGazette.com), producer Simon Emanuel appears to have potentially let slip a new title for the film saying: “James Mangold’s Jedi Prime is set thousands and thousands of years before [the original trilogy] and I’m really excited to see what happens there.”
Emanuel produced “Rogue One” and the upcoming “The Acolyte” series and so is fairly familiar with his “Star Wars” terminology which suggests the name isn’t accidental.
This would fit with Mangold’s time period and desire to explore the Forcec’s origins. The ‘Prime Jedi’ appeared in a mosaic in 2017’s” Star Wars: The Last Jedi” – in the lore they were the first Jedi to use the Force and founded the Jedi Order on the planet Ahch-To (where Luke Skywalker went into hiding until Rey found him).
Just when Mangold will get to work on the film remains an open question.
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