Former Lando Showrunner Describes The "True Grief" Of The Show's Cancelation

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Summary Losing the Star Wars: Lando show was a painful blow for the showrunner, as Disney shifted plans towards a movie adaptation.

Former showrunner Justin Simien faced true grief after the cancelation, pouring his heart and soul into the project.

Despite the loss, Simien reflects on the experience positively, emphasizing personal growth and learning from the process.

Losing the Star Wars: Lando show was truly painful for its former showrunner. Disney originally expected Donald Glover‘s Lando Calrissian to star in a show of his own, led by showrunner Justin Simien. Lando likely would have been a prequel taking a similar angle to the movie that Glover's Lando was introduced in, Solo: A Star Wars Story. Disney has recently shifted to include even more similarities, as the show has been canceled in favor of a movie intended to cover the same topic.

While Donald Glover is still attached to the project, Simien is no longer in charge. In an interview with Collider, Simien explained that he truly struggled after discovering that he would not be leading a portion of the Star Wars universe. He described discovering the news "when I read it in the trades", though he admits that "the writing was super on the wall". He was thrust into a grieving process and struggled in the aftermath of his discovery. Check out his full explanation below:

For me, the answer is that you have to really face it. It is true grief. I’ve never had a child, I’ve never lost a child, but it’s what I imagine that pain might be like. You pour so much of your heart and soul into something, but ultimately, you don’t have control over whether it lives or dies, and it is a true grieving process. For me, it has to be done pretty straight on like, ‘I am in grief. I do not feel good.’ I have to let myself feel those feelings. There’s so much that I experience that I get to keep forever and take into the next project. I can’t obviously take the storyline or the IP or the characters, but there’s so much more that I got, as a maker, and that’s mine. Sorry, it’s too late, you can’t take that part back."

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Source: Collider