Rumors first circulated in February that Tom Holland's "Spider-Man" director Jon Watts was circling a "Star Wars" television series at Disney+, but a new report from Vanity Fair now confirms the show. Lucasfilm gave no plot details about the project. Vanity Fair reports the show is being developed under the code name "Grammar Rodeo," which is "a reference to an episode of 'The Simpsons' in which Bart and his schoolmates steal a car and run away for a week, using...
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Watts closed out 2021 on a triumphant note with “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” his third effort in the Tom Holland-toplined iteration of the web-slinging franchise. The film took in $1.9 billion worldwide, topping all previous Spider-Man films and unseating “Avatar” as the third-highest-grossing film of all time domestically. He directed and exec produced the FX drama series “The Old Man,” starring Jeff Bridges, which was renewed for a second season shortly after its premiere. In May, it was announced that Watts would join the “Star Wars” universe as director and executive producer of the Disney+ series “Skeleton Crew,” set to premiere in 2023. Scripted by Christopher Ford (co-writer of “Spider-Man: Homecoming”) and starring Jude Law, it is reportedly a coming-of-age adventure in the spirit of movies produced by Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment in the 1980s.