Beau Willimon is returning to the world of Siths and Jedis, having now been tapped to write for Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi, the Lucasfilm feature to be directed by James Mangold. The playwright and screenwriter is best known for his work on House of Cards, as well as The Ides of March and The First series.

Dawn of the Jedi, which is a working title, will take place 25, 000 years before any of the timelines and stories told by the Star Wars films and series so far, and will trace the very origins of the Force.

When the project was first announced at the Star Wars Celebration event in April 2023, Mangold stated: “When I first started talking to Kathy [Kennedy] about doing one of these pictures, what occurred to me was thinking about what kind of genre of movie within Star Wars I wanted to do. And I thought about a biblical epic, like a Ten Commandments, about the dawning of the Force. Where did the Force come from, when did we discover it, when did we learn how to use it?”

The feature has no release window as of yet, but Mangold is expected to start working on Dawn of the Jedi once he wraps his Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown. The next Star Wars feature to hit our screens should be The Mandalorian & Grogu, which was just last week announced to release May 22nd, 2026.

As mentioned above, this isn’t Willimon’s first venture into the Star Wars universe. He worked on season one of Andor, work which earned him an Emmy nomination for outstanding writing for a drama series.