Rise of the Jedi', director James Mangold explained that his prequel will deviate from the nearly 50-year old franchise.

The "A Complete Unknown" director said he's excited to make a movie set in this period so he's not "handcuffed" to "Star Wars" lore.

Dawn of the Jedi is currently in the making and is expected to receive passionate reactions from fans considering the franchise's massive appeal.

While not much is known about the plot of James Mangold‘s upcoming Star Wars movie, it has been confirmed that it will take place 25,000 years before the events of A New Hope. In a recent discussion,

Daisy Ridley put her stamp on the Star Wars universe during the most recent trilogy with her performances as Rey Skywalker, the focal character of those films. Due to Ridley's strong work, she grew throughout the movies and proved to be entertaining, and that's something that has left fans wanting to see her enter the world of Star Wars once again.

James Mangold, who just picked up a Directors Guild of America nomination for “A Complete Unknown,” recently told MovieWeb that his upcoming “Star Wars” movie is deliberately set thousands of years before any other movie in the long-running franchise so that he doesn’t have to deal with the canon and can thus avoid angering fans.

James Mangold is taking the phrase, “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away,” quite literally. Mangold’s Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi will be a prequel movie set thousands of years before the Skywalker Saga.

The thing James Mangold finds most appealing about his Dawn of the Jedi movie may also allow the film to chart a bold new future for Star Wars.