Will There Be a Lando Calrissian Star Wars Spinoff Movie?

2018’s “Solo: A Star Wars Story” could not have performed too nicely on the field workplace, however one enduring spotlight from it’s Donald Glover’s efficiency as Lando Calrissian. The sleek-talking, cape-wearing smuggler effortlessly stole each scene he was in, which is why conversations a couple of Lando-focused spinoff have been swirling for years.

In December 2020, Disney introduced {that a} sequence centered round Lando was within the works with “Haunted Mansion” director Justin Simien as showrunner. Nevertheless, Simien wound up exiting the undertaking and Donald and his brother, Stephen Glover, took over, per The Hollywood Reporter. Throughout a Sept. 14 look on the podcast “Pablo Torre Finds Out,” Stephen revealed that the undertaking is now a film being made in partnership with Lucasfilm. “It isn’t even a present . . . the concept proper now’s to do a film. Proper now, due to the strike, it is sort of like phone, all the info,” he mentioned. Reps for Lucasfilm didn’t instantly reply to POPSUGAR’s request for remark.

Donald briefly mentioned the undertaking in an April interview with GQ, although remained evasive about its standing. “I’d like to play Lando once more. It is a enjoyable time, being him. It simply needs to be the fitting solution to do it. Time is valuable. The previous couple of years, this pandemic sh*t, it actually had individuals expertise time . . . Individuals understand their time is efficacious. You solely get a lot. I am not excited by doing something that is going to be a waste of my time or only a paycheck,” he mentioned. “I might a lot reasonably spend time with folks that I get pleasure from. It simply needs to be the fitting factor, and I feel it may very well be. Lando is unquestionably any person I like to hang around with.”

Whereas we possible will not see Donald in all his caped glory for fairly some time, particularly given the continued SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes, you may at all times journey again 40 years in the past to Billy Dee Williams’s authentic tackle the character in “The Empire Strikes Again” and “Return of the Jedi” for extra Lando content material. Donald has additionally saved busy within the years since debuting as Lando, engaged on every part from “Atlanta” and “Swarm” to a forthcoming remake of “Mr. and Mrs. Smith.”