This is not a drill, friends: Taika Waititi is confirmed as the director on a new Star Wars movie. The news arrives on Monday, May 4, one of the most exciting days in the Star Wars fandom. There could be no better time to celebrate the past, present, and future of the Star Wars franchise than with big news like this. So, what exactly do we know so far about this new Waititi-directed movie? According to a press release from Walt Disney Studios, we've gotten only the barest of details about this new movie. Waititi, who won an …

It's best you familiarize yourself with the name Krysty Wilson-Cairns right now because this Oscar-nominated screenwriter's star is on the rise. The 1917 scribe reportedly has a new TV series in the works which sees her re-teaming with Neal Street Productions, the team behind the aforementioned WWI one-shot epic directed and co-written by Sam Mendes. [caption id="attachment_865662" align="alignright" width="360"] Image via Universal Pictures[/caption] According to The Hollywood Reporter, Wilson-Cairns is working with 1917 producers Mendes and Pippa Harris as well as Caro Newling (all three are founding members …

Spoilers for 1917 follow below. A latecomer to this year’s awards race, filmmaker Sam Mendes’ one-shot World War I film 1917 racked up 10 Oscar nominations earlier this week, including Best Picture, Director, and Original Screenplay. The honors were well-deserved as the film is a technical marvel that also serves as a visceral, triumphant tribute to the lives lost during the Great War. But one nomination 1917 didn’t receive is Best Film Editing. You may think recognition in that category doesn’t track with a film presented entirely in a single shot, but in truth a …

How does one go about writing a movie that plays out in a single shot? And how does that differ from writing a traditional film script? Greatly, according to 1917 co-writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns. The up-and-coming writer had worked on two projects with Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes that never came to fruition before the Skyfall filmmaker called her up one day and pitched her 1917. Inspired by stories from his grandfather, the film would follow a soldier through his experiences in World War I, and would be incredibly personal and character-driven. Oh, and it would …

We interview 1917 co-writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns about collaborating with director Sam Mendes and what she drew from while working on the script.

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We interview 1917 screenwriter Krysty Wilson-Cairns at New York Comic Con about the one-shot aspect of Sam Mendes' World War I movie.