Director Justin Simien (Dear White People) has confirmed that Lando, a series from the Star Wars franchise, has been cancelled while in development.
Lando was set to focus on a young Lando Calrissian, a gambler and semi-retired smuggler from the Star Wars universe.
In an interview to Collider, the director of the now-cancelled series Simien stated, “It [the series] was pretty developed. There was a bible. There was concept art. There were scripts. But it just wasn’t meant to be.”
Regarding the cancellation of the project, he said, “There’s so much that I experience that I get to keep forever and take into the next project. I can’t obviously take the storyline or the IP or the characters, but there’s so much more that I got, as a maker, and that’s mine. Sorry, it’s too late, you can’t take that part back.”
The series was first announced in 2010, with Donald Glover set to star as the titular character, who also played the character before in Solo: A Star Wars Story. Disney is yet to comment on the cancellation of the project.