Star Wars: Rogue Squadron is BACK ON with Patty Jenkins returning as director

In a major surprise, Patty Jenkins has recommenced work on Star Wars: Rogue Squadron after it was previously taken off Disney's Star Wars schedule.

The future of Rogue Squadron was previously called into question when Jenkins was forced to leave the project due to commitments on Wonder Woman 3. However, when that movie was scrapped after a restructuring of the new DC movie universe spearheaded by James Gunn, the director now finds herself back with the reins of a Star Wars project.

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"So, when I left Star Wars to do Wonder Woman 3 , I thought maybe I'll come back to Star Wars after Wonder Woman 3," she told the Talking Pictures podcast.

"So we did a deal for that to happen, started a deal, but I thought I was doing Wonder Woman. When that went away, Lucasfilm and I were like, oh, we gotta finish this deal. We finished the deal right as the strike was happening. So I now owe a draft of Star Wars and so we will see what happens there. You know, like, who knows?

"And so we will see what happens there. You know, like, who knows? It's hard, they have a hard job in front of them of what's the first movie they're gonna do. They have other directors who have been working, but I am now, you know, I'm back on doing Rogue Squadron and we'll see what happens. We need to develop, you know, get it to where we're both super happy with it."

Jenkins is one of a number of directors currently working on Star Wars projects, including Taika Waititi and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy.

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Jenkins wants to make Rogue Squadron for her dad

Jenkins previously revealed that she is keen to make Rogue Squadron in tribute to her father, who served as an Air Force pilot during the Vietnam War.

“I love to move fast at speed of any kind,” she said in 2020.

“I think that’s because I grew up the daughter of a great fighter pilot, and every day I would wake up and go outside and look up, and I would see my father and his squadron take off in their F4s, roaring across the sky. It was the most thrilling thing that still I’ve experienced in my entire life.”.