Lando star Donald Glover thinks Star Wars has become a little too serious and wants to bring fun back to the galaxy far, far away.
Glover told The Wall Street Journal he believes Star Wars needs to be fun and suggested recent films have veered away from that. He wants to use his character Lando Calrissian’s status as a scoundrel to create a fun film that people can relate to.
“I just want it to be fun,” Glover said when asked what one thing he wants to bring to Lando, which was originally announced as a Solo: A Star Wars Story spin-off show but is now being developed as a movie.
“As a Star Wars fan myself, I think it’s important that there needs to be fun being had. It’s very hard to have fun right now. It’s tough because there are very serious things happening and those are the only things that connect us, weirdly. So I get why things are serious, but part of the human experience, I believe, is we have a responsibility to have enjoyment. And I just feel like we’re lacking in that department.
“Star Wars, I love it, but sometimes it can be super serious. Sometimes it be, like, way too serious. Everything that has to do with the Skywalkers is like so serious. [With] Lando, I think the best part about him is he’s a scoundrel. And I feel like people can relate to that, and he’s probably like ‘man, this war is whack. I need money,’ which I feel everyone can relate to. I want to bring fun to Star Wars. I just want it to be fun.”
Lando has no release date but it appears to be actively being worked on, as Glover mentioned previously in the interview that he and his brother Stephen, who are co-writing the film together, meet up to to talk about it.
The project has otherwise fallen in and out of obscurity since it was first teased in 2018. Disney announced a show would be made in 2020 but went quiet until Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy told IGN in 2023 that the company was still talking about it with Glover.
Things became messy soon after, however, as once lead writer Justin Simien said he had no idea what was going on with Lando. One week later and he was cut from the project, with the Glover brothers taking over. Disney allegedly didn’t tell Simien about this, however, and he was left to find out online, something that required “a true grieving process” to overcome.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll talk about The Witcher all day.
