Kevin Feige and Patty Jenkins' "Star Wars" Movies Shelved

There has been a spell of bad news for Star Wars fans awaiting the movies expected from Patty Jenkins and Kevin Feige.

 The reboot of the Star Wars franchise since 2015 has been marred by creative issues, director firings, and generally bad decision-making. 

Jenkins' Rogue Squadron—as well as Marvel Studios President Feige's untitled project—have both been shelved indefinitely. 

While the Star Wars franchise continues to do moderately on the TV side well through Disney+s "The Mandalorian", the show from Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni is a critical darling and beloved by fans, however, the movie side under the Disney/Lucasfilm banner have seen a law of diminishing returns. 

Jenkins was first announced as director of the project in December 2020, during the Lucasfilm portion of Disney’s Investor Day presentation. 

The acclaimed director shared a story on Twitter that was engaging and personal, discussing how she had lost her father—a fighter pilot—and in his honor, wanted to make the greatest fighter pilot movie ever made. 

However, speculation had been mounting that the project was in turmoil due to creative differences, before it was removed altogether from the Disney release schedule in September 2022. 

Jenkins had last commented publicly on the status of Rogue Squadron in December when she revealed that the project was, at the time, still in development with her attached to direct the movie. 

It marks the latest in a turbulent spell, professionally, for Jenkins after she parted ways with DC and Warner Bros. on "Wonder Woman 3", following DC Studios hiring James Gunn and Peter Safran as co-CEOs and co-chairmen.

Meanwhile, news of Feige's project had been cold for some time—Michael Waldron had been attached to write for several years, following his success at Marvel Studios writing Disney+'s"Loki" and Marvel Studio's "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Magic". 

Five months later, Feige returned to Waldron and tapped him to pen the script for "Avengers: Secret Wars" (2026), which is designed to be the culmination of the current Multiverse Saga in the MCU. The current slate of Marvel movies has not been quite as well critically received.