Lucasfilm boss Kathleen Kennedy keeps “waiting” for Taika Waititi to turn in a script for his Star Wars movie.

Back in 2020, it was announced that the Thor: Ragnarok filmmaker would direct and co-write a Star Wars film with Last Night in Soho’s Krysty Wilson-Cairns.

Three years later, Kennedy shared that Waititi was writing the project by himself, and in an update on Thursday, she revealed that he was now working with a new writer and she had yet to see a full script.

“Well, I keep waiting for Taika, and he is working with another writer now,” she told Deadline. “He’s so busy. I love him. I think if we ever do get a script from Taika, it’s going to be fantastic. I already saw a first act that I loved, but tying him down, it’s tricky.”

Since his project was announced in 2020, the New Zealand director has released the films Thor: Love and Thunder and Next Goals Wins, among other TV series, short films, music videos and adverts.

He has also wrapped filming the movie adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Klara and the Sun and is currently in pre-production on the films James and The Incal.

Elsewhere in the interview, Kennedy gave updates on the projects in development with Simon Kinberg, Shawn Levy and James Mangold.

“Simon’s working on scripts right now. Shawn, we had been working with him already for about a year and a half. These guys are available now,” she shared. “Jim, he got delayed a bit because of the (Bob) Dylan movie (A Complete Unknown) and the awards season… I like to wait for people that I think are passionate and really good to step into Star Wars.”

Kennedy, who denied that she’s retiring from Lucasfilm anytime soon, did not provide updates on the films being developed by Rian Johnson, Patty Jenkins and Donald Glover, or the project set to star Daisy Ridley as Rey.

The next Star Wars movie, The Mandalorian & Grogu, will be released in 2026.

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