Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins has given an encouraging update on what was presumed to be a dead project, stating that she’s back in active development on her Star Wars film Rogue Squadron. The filmmaker is reportedly working on a draft script for Lucasfilm.

“When I left Star Wars to do Wonder Woman 3, and I started working on that, we talked about, ‘Well, maybe I’ll come back to Star Wars after Wonder Woman 3,’” she told the Talking Pictures Podcast. “So we started a deal for that to happen. So when Wonder Woman 3 went away,” she explains, referring to the appointment of James Gunn and Peter Safran to captain the DCEU in new directions, “Lucasfilm and I were like, ‘Oh, we’ve got to finish this deal.’ We finished the deal right as the strike was beginning. So I now owe a draft of Star Wars. So we will see what happens there. Who knows? They have a hard job in front of them of, ‘What’s the first movie [since the sequel trilogy] they’re going to do?’ They have other directors who have been working, but I am now back on doing Rogue Squadron. We’ll see what happens. We need to get it to where we’re both super happy with it. The emotion of Star Wars and what it stands for is something so beautiful in this world,” Jenkins added. “Star Wars was born out of World War II … so in that way I’ve always wanted to make a fighter pilot movie. … So yes, I would love to do it.”

Jenkins was originally announced to direct Rogue Squadron in December 2022, though it was taken off of Lucasfilm’s production schedule less than a year later.