TL;DR Paul King and Simon Farnaby pitched a droid-centered Star Wars film to Lucasfilm after Paddington 2. Paul King and Simon Farnaby, the directing and writing team behind Paddington 2, were approached by Lucasfilm to make a Star Wars film. “They were like, ‘We really need it to be a Star Wars movie,’ which is probably why it didn’t get turned into a Star Wars movie,” Farnaby told Variety. The droid pitch joins a long list of Star Wars films that were announced, developed, or rumoured but never made. Lucasfilm’s next hope is Star Wars: Starfighter, directed by Shawn Levy and starring Ryan Gosling, scheduled for May 2027.