Best known for directing Marvel Studios’ Thor: Ragnarok and winning the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar last year for Jojo Rabbit, Taika Waititi has officially signed on to direct a new theatrical live-action Star Wars movie.
No stranger to the Star Wars universe, Waititi directed the season finale of the highly successful Disney+ series The Mandalorian.
In addition to helming the film, Waititi will also co-write the screenplay alongside Krysty Wilson-Cairns (1917)
Stay tuned.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter