Gary Whitta Departs ‘Star Wars’ to Work on ‘Starlight’ Adaptation

Mark Millar's Starlight

From one galaxy to another. One tiny piece of news at the beginning of this year involves a screenwriter we’ve been following for a long time. His name is Gary Whitta and he just spent the last year working on the screenplay for the first Star Wars spin-off movie, the one due out in late 2016, being directed by Gareth Edwards. Before that he wrote the After Earth and The Book of Eli scripts, and also worked on numerous video games and other geek properties. Whitta has announced that he’s moving on to develop an adaptation of Mark Millar’s Starlight for 20th Century Fox next after finishing Star Wars, so he’s set and ready to go. ›››

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