Female-Fronted 'Star Wars' Series Coming to Disney+
by EG
The second of season of The Mandalorian is scheduled to launch in the fall, but it will be far from the only Star Wars series to debut on the streaming platform. A new series with a female lead is on the way from Russian Doll creator Leslye Headland. It is one of three new Star Wars series in the works on Disney+. Read on for details.
Disney+ is continuing to expand the Star Wars galaxy. Russian Doll co-creator Leslye Headland is developing a new live-action Star Wars series for the streaming service, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
Headland will write and act as showrunner for the project, which is said to have a female-centric point of view on the galaxy far, far away.
The deal was actually concluded several months ago, and Headland even attended the Los Angeles premiere of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker in December.
Headland received two Emmy nominations last year for Russian Doll, the Netflix series starring Natasha Lyonne as a game coder who keeps dying and reliving her 36th birthday. The show received 13 noms in total and won three awards.
Headland is also known for writing and directing the 2015 film Sleeping With Other People after making her feature debut with the 2012 romantic comedy Bachelorette. The filmmaker has also directed episodes of SMILF, Heathers and Blunt Talk.
The new Star Wars series is one of multiple projects in the works at Disney+, which has season two of The Mandalorian primed for an October release and is also developing a Diego Luna-led Rogue One prequel series, as well as a show starring Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Get the rest of the story at The Hollywood Reporter.
Do you like Disney's plans for its Star Wars series? Let us know in the comments below.