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Damon Lindelof Reveals Why He Was Fired From Star Wars Movie: Story Was the ‘Protestant Reformation Inside Star Wars’

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“Lost” and “Watchmen” mastermind Damon Lindelof has detailed why he was fired from writing a Star Wars movie and teases what the tale would’ve been about.

Lindelof was a guest on the May 18 episode of The Ringer’s “House of R” podcast and, early on in a lengthy discussion about “Star Wars,” mentioned that he wanted to “talk about the Bantha in the room.”

“I was fired off of a ‘Star Wars’ movie,” he says. “They asked me, ‘What do you think a “Star Wars” movie should be?’ And I said, ‘Here’s what it should be.’ And they said, ‘Great, you’re hired.’ And then two years later, I was fired. And so I was wrong, at least through that prism. But what we were attempting to do, my partner Justin Britt-Gibson, Rayna McClendon and I, 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, and let’s do the Protestant Reformation inside ‘Star Wars,’ and it didn’t work. You have your cake and eat it too. The conversation that the fandom is having, without winking and looking at the audience, that didn’t feel necessarily that risky.”

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Damon Lindelof Reveals Why He Was Fired From Star Wars Movie: Story Was the 'Protestant Reformation Inside Star Wars'