Justin Simien says the Donald Glover-starring Solo: A Star Wars Story spinoff collection Lando won’t be occurring.
Collider revealed remarks Friday from Simien indicating that Lando is lifeless.
Simien is out selling Hollywood Black, an MGM+ docuseries primarily based on the e-book by scholar Donald Bogle analyzing race and illustration in Hollywood. That’s when the Lando undertaking got here up.
“It was fairly developed,” he mentioned. “There was a Bible. There was idea artwork. There have been scripts. However it simply wasn’t meant to be.”
He added that he grieved for the undertaking.
“For me, it must be accomplished fairly straight on. Like, ‘I’m in grief. I don’t really feel good.’ I’ve to let myself really feel these emotions,” he mentioned. “There’s a lot that I expertise that I get to maintain endlessly and take into the following undertaking. I can’t clearly take the storyline or the IP or the characters, however there’s a lot extra that I acquired, as a maker, and that’s mine. Sorry, it’s too late, you possibly can’t take that half again.”
Lando was first introduced in 2020. Glover’s Lando was the breakout star of Solo, and Simien had three seasons of Pricey White Folks, the collection he created, directed, and wrote for Netflix. All of it appeared able to pop.
Why Lando fell by the cracks at Disney+ remains to be unclear. However Simien has lots on his plate.
Simien has a live-action Star Trek comedy collection starring Tawny Newsome on the best way, introduced at San Diego Comedian-Con. The logline: “Federation outsiders serving a gleaming resort planet discover out their day-to-day exploits are being broadcast to your entire quadrant.”
“I actually grew up watching that present and wishing I might go to house,” Simien advised Collider concerning the Star Trek undertaking. I’m residing that childhood dream proper now.”
Hollywood Black will premiere on August 11 on MGM+.
