Mysterious “Star Wars” Series in The Works From “Lost” Showrunner Carlton Cuse

Well before Game of Thrones became the kind of appointment television event that captured the world’s interest and had millions of people tuning in simultaneously, Carlton Cuse’s Lost established the blueprint for serialized TV obsession. When Lost premiered in 2004, Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse’s massively ambitious series was evident from the movie-like production values, sprawling cast, and evident chutzpah in telling a story that looked and felt big enough for the big screen. The mysteries Lost doled out episode after episode, as it followed the survivors of a plane crash on a mysterious island, turned the series into a cultural phenomenon. Lost spawned the first major online communities of fans obsessing over every single frame of the show to ferret out clues and theorize on where the story was headed, now a common feature of our modern TV landscape.

So, it makes sense that Cuse and his son, Nick, a seasoned TV writer in his own right who has worked with Lindelof on the excellent HBO series The Leftovers and Watchmen, as well as another excellent HBO series, Station Eleven, and Apple TV+’s WWII drama Masters of the Air, have been tapped to create a new Star Wars series for Disney+, as The Hollywood Reporter scooped. The father-son duo will spearhead the project for Disney+, which has become the most fertile ground in the past few years for the Star Wars galaxy, with live-action series, beginning with The Mandalorian and growing every year, have filled in the gap between since the last feature film bowed, which was JJ Abrams’ 2019 trilogy capper The Rise of Skywalker. 

So what will the new series be about? That detail is currently frozen in carbonite (or perhaps it’s being kept on the remote planet of Bogano, a place absent on most Star Wars maps), but the news itself follows the recent Star Wars celebration in Tokyo and lands right before the premiere of season two of Andor, which is currently enjoying rapturous reviews from critics who are calling season two even better than the first.

We’ll share more when we learn more about the project as the Star Wars galaxy continues to expand, both on Disney+ in the form of live-action and animated series, and with the upcoming feature films.

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Featured image: (LR) Writer Carlton Cuse and composer Michael Giacchino speak at ‘We Have To Go Back: The LOST Concert’ at John Anson Ford Amphitheater on September 23, 2016 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Tara Ziemba/Getty Images)at John Anson Ford Amphitheatre on September 23, 2016 in Hollywood, California.