Maleficent star Angelina Jolie said she’s ready to join Disney’s Star Wars franchise after The Eternals.
This fall, Angelina Jolie will reprise her role as the eponymous character in Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, a sequel to Disney’s retelling of the classic Sleeping Beauty tale. The following year, Angelina Jolie will portray Thena in Marvel Studios’ The Eternals, marking her second role in a major Disney franchise.
Of course, this leaves the Star Wars film series as one of the only major Disney franchises in which Angelina Jolie has yet to appear. When MTV News asked about the possibility of appearing in a Star Wars film, Angelina Jolie said asked The Rise of Skywalker director J.J. Abrams why she couldn’t join the franchise but the conversation didn’t far enough to work out any details. Angelina Jolie then discussed how excited she was to join Marvel Studios’ The Eternals and work with director Chloé Zhao.
You can check out the video below to hear Angelina Jolie’s full comments on Star Wars and The Eternals.
After @Maleficent and @MarvelStudios’s #Eternals, Angelina Jolie is ready to join the @StarWars franchise! What say you, @jjabrams ? #D23Expo pic.twitter.com/1TDM31iKKp
— MTV NEWS (@MTVNEWS) August 28, 2019
Directed by Chloé Zhao from a script written by Matthew K. Firpo & Ryan Firpo, Marvel Studios’ The Eternals stars Angelina Jolie, Richard Madden, Gemma Chan, Kit Harington, Kumail Nanjiani, Lauren Ridloff, Brian Tyree Henry, Salma Hayek, Lia McHugh, Don Lee, and Barry Keoghan. The Eternals is scheduled to be released in theaters on November 6, 2020.
Meanwhile, the main Star Wars saga is set to conclude with the release of The Rise of Skywalker. Directed by J. J. Abrams, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker stars Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Lupita Nyong’o, Domhnall Gleeson, Kelly Marie Tran, Joonas Suotamo, Billie Lourd, Naomi Ackie, Richard E. Grant, Keri Russell, Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Ian McDiarmid, and Billy Dee Williams. Carrie Fisher will appear as General Leia Organa through the use of previously unreleased footage shot for Star Wars: The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi. The film will be released in theaters on December 19, 2019.
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Source: MTV News
