What does James Mangold’s new paramount affair mean for “Star Wars” and “Swamp Thing”?

The director nominated for the Oscars, James Mangold, has a lot of great films on his plate, and he has just concluded an agreement to make it even more. Mangold has just signed an agreement to “develop, carry out and produce projects of feature films” at Paramount, which was recently acquired by Skydance. He comes to the heels of a next Mangold film, High side, Being acquired by the studio, a motorcycle racing film that will give the filmmaker with his A complete unknown Star, Timothée Chalamet.

“I am very happy to start this collaboration with David (Ellison), Josh (Greenstein), Dana (Goldberg) and everyone in Paramount,” the director said in a press release. “The enthusiasm they have shown towards the films on the big screen and the passion with which they adopted my ideas for future projects are really exciting.”

Goldberg added that “James Mangold is one of the most talented filmmakers working today, and we could not be more excited to welcome him to the Paramount family, starting with High side And many more collaborations to come. »»

“Many more collaborations to come.” It’s great for Paramount and Mangold, but he gets around the fact that the filmmaker is currently attached to at least two great gender films, the fans have watched, none of which is in Paramount. We are talking about his “Dawn of the Jedi” Star Wars Film with Lucasfilm and Disney, as well as Marginating With DC and Warner Bros. And, we are sure you are wondering, does this new agreement have an impact on them in any way?

Io9 contacted Paramount, DC Studios and Lucasfilm about the news and heard of a Mangold representative. They confirmed to IO9 that the filmmaker, “remains attached and available to develop all his other projects”. So that’s it. Everything is fine and it makes sense. The past experience shows that the simple fact that a creative signs an agreement with a studio does not mean that they cannot or cannot work with another. For example, JJ Abrams was under an agreement with Paramount when he did Star Wars: The Force Awakens With Disney. In addition, it is not because Tom Cruise recently signed an agreement with Warner Bros. Top Gun: Maverick Continuation for Paramount.

The key is that these pre -existing projects must be part of the language within the framework of the agreement with all the leaders. Which, it seems, is the case here. Thus, although the news is not a nail in the coffin of one or the other project, he does not annoy either incredibly well For them either. Mangold’s goal is probably moving towards High side And these “much more collaborations to come”, but if one or the other project comes to a point where it is ready to leave, we would imagine it.

And whatever happens, Mangold has repeatedly proven that he has good things to make great films. Not everyone liked Indiana Jones and the dial of fate, But we all like LoganRIGHT? And The Wolverine, Cop Land, Walk the Line, 3:10 to Yuma, And Ford against Ferrari are damn good too. I hope he continues to make great films and, maybe even, great Star Wars or DC films.

This story was updated at 3.30 p.m. with a comment from the Mangold team.

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