There aren’t many people you could just hand aStar Warsshow and assume the finished product would rip, butRonald D. Moorehas certainly earned the benefit of the doubt. The writer/director jumped right from his breakthrough work onStar TrekseriesThe Next GenerationandDeep Space Nineinto launching the highly-acclaimedBattlestar Galacticarevival, followed by bringingOutlanderto TV and creatingFor All Mankind. So now that he’s set up under a cushy overall deal at Disney-owned 20th Century TV, you just kind’ve assume Moore—who was attached to a live-actionStar Warsseries alongsideGeorge Lucasages ago—will eventually dip his hands into a galaxy far, far away.
In a recentTHRinterview, Moore confirmed that he’d love to wage himself aStar War, but now might not be the ideal time.
“It’s always something that’s on my mind but clearly, they have their Star Wars plate full at the moment. I’m not sure this is the moment that you go in and pitch a new Star Wars series over there. I would love to do something in that franchise. It was fun to go work on the abortive live-action show that I did way back when. I got a tremendous amount of thrill of writing lines for Darth Vader in one episode and it would be fun to do that again. It’s just not the first piece of development I’m doing over there but hopefully I’ll be allowed to do that at some point.”
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That bit about writing lines for Darth Vader seems to confirm the long-standing rumor Moore’s series would have been set betweenRevenge of the SithandA New Hope. The slate of new Disney+Star Warsshows has that time period covered, as the highly-anticipatedKenobiseries starringEwan McGregorconfirmedHayden Christensenwouldrevive his portrayal of Darth Vaderten years after the events ofSith. But heck, throw an episode Moore’s way! (And/or give him the Watto series the people are calling for.)
“I am old enough to have gone to Star Wars in the summer of ‘77 and seen it originally and then you had to wait years to see the next one. Now it’s just fun. I used to read the novelizations and the comic books in between movies and you saw what a rich universe it was and how many stories you could tell in so many different ways. The idea that they are now spreading out the Star Wars saga as not just the main line of the Skywalker story but doing things like The Mandalorian and all these other shows … I can’t wait to see all the different possibilities that get opened up.”
For All Mankindseason 2 is currently airing weekly on Apple TV+.
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