In October 2022, it was announced that Lostand HBO’s Watchmen creator Damon Lindelof had been tapped to develop a secret Star Wars film project at Lucasfilm.

According to reports at the time, the story was going to take place after The Rise of Skywalker, with Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (Ms. Marvel) on board to direct from a script by Lindelof, Justin Britt-Gibson (Into the Badlands) and Rayna McClendon (Briarpatch).

But like the efforts of Rian Johnson, James Mangold, Patty Jenkins Kevin Feige Taika Waititi and David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, the untitled film ultimately fell into the deepest wrung of development hell once Lindelof and Britt-Gibson officially parted ways with Lucasfilm in March 2023.

Now, three years later, Lindelof has shed some more light on his vision for the mysterious movie, which was set to focus on newly-minted Jedi Rey Skywalker (Daisy Ridley) following the events of Episode IX.

Lostcreator Damon Lindelof shares plot details of his axed Star Warsmovie

“Just to talk about the Bantha in the room, I was fired off of a Star Warsmovie,” Lindelof revealed during a recent appearance on the Ringer-Verse podcast. “They asked me, ‘What do you think a Star Warsmovie should be?’ And I said, ‘Here’s what it should be!’ And they said, ‘Great, you’re hired.’ Then, two years later, I was fired. And so, I was wrong—at least through that prism.”

He continued: “What we were attempting to do…was to have this conversation in the movie, which is to say there is a force of nostalgia and there is a force of revision. And they are at odds with one another. Let’s do the Protestant Reformation inside Star Wars, and it didn’t work. You have your cake and eat it, too. But [you acknowledge] the conversation the fandom is having without winking and looking at the audience.”

Lindelof said that while Lucasfilm “seemed to like the premise,” the writing process proved incredibly difficult with regards to “the tone, getting it right, where it was inside of the canon, what it’s relationship to Episode IX is,” he explained. “Is it starting a new trilogy? All of those things. They’re so massive, they’re so big. It’s like the old tanker equation, which is you turn the wheel and it takes five minutes before it turns a little bit.”

Per Ridley, the project (referred to by fans as Star Wars: New Jedi Order) is still on track. “There’s always movement,” the actress said earlier this year, “but the movement is at the right pace, because the best things are worth the wait.”

The first Star Wars feature to open after The Rise of Skywalker, of course, ended up being The Mandalorian and Grogu. The continued adventures of Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) and the toddler colloquially known as Baby Yoda is now playing in theaters.

Lucasfilm’s next outing on the big screen will take the form of Star Wars: Starfighter. Slated for release a May 28 release, the galactic blockbuster was directed by Shawn Levy and stars Ryan Gosling, Amy Adams, Aaron Pierre, Matt Smith and Mia Goth. Jonathan Tropper, creator of the critically acclaimed Jon Hamm series Your Friends & Neighbors, wrote the screenplay.

“My goal,” Levy teased to SYFY Wire in 2022, “is to make a Star Wars movie that is like a lot of my movies, which is visual spectacle and a healthy dose of wish fulfillment, levity, and big heart.”