Update, November 7, 11:15am PT: After the publication of this story, IGN heard again from our personal supply near the manufacturing. We can affirm that the brand new trilogy is not, in actual fact, a continuation of the Skywalker Saga, regardless of a few of the data in Deadline’s preliminary unique. Instead, it’s going to be the start of a brand new saga, sitting alongside the opposite beforehand introduced movies.
The different data, together with the truth that Simon Kinberg is writing and producing the trilogy, is appropriate.
Previous story as follows:
In some large Star Wars information this morning, Lucasfilm is reportedly engaged on a brand new movie trilogy that might function a continuation of the Skywalker Saga… or possibly not.
That information comes from a Deadline report on Thursday, which provides that Simon Kinberg, greatest identified for his work producing twentieth Century Fox’s X-Men films and co-creating Star Wars Rebels, will write the trilogy and produce alongside Lucasfilm’s Kathleen Kennedy. What’s a bit unclear for the time being is a conflicting piece of knowledge within the article; whereas a few of Deadline’s sources say that the brand new trilogy can be Episodes 10-12, persevering with the Skywalker Saga, its different sources dispute that intel and say it’s going to as an alternative inform a brand new story alongside beforehand introduced function movies from James Mangold, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Taika Waititi, and Donald Glover.
Variety ran a report shortly after Deadline, saying the trilogy would in actual fact “start a brand new sequence after 2019’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker concluded the Skywalker Saga.” The Hollywood Reporter‘s protection additionally says it would be a brand-new story with new characters.
Frankly, it is all a bit complicated for the time being, and IGN has reached out to Disney/Lucasfilm for clarification. The Brazil version of D23 Expo is going down this weekend, so it is potential the corporate was going to interrupt some information on the Kinberg trilogy there.
While Star Wars has largely been targeted on the TV format since The Rise of Skywalker, airing reveals like The Mandalorian, Andor, The Acolyte, and extra on Disney+, its upcoming movie pipeline has been increasing pretty aggressively. First on the docket would be the Jon Favreau-directed The Mandalorian & Grogu, set for a May 22, 2026 launch.
As for what we all know in regards to the different movies: Mangold’s will inform the story of daybreak of the Jedi Knights, Filoni’s can be set in his Mandalorian-verse, and Obaid-Chinoy’s will observe the New Jedi Order, with Daisy Ridley reprising her function as Rey after the occasions of The Rise of Skywalker. If something, it looks like that New Jedi Order movie could be the obvious continuation of the Skywalker saga.
Glover’s Lando undertaking, in the meantime, pivoted from a TV sequence to a movie final 12 months, and we’re all nonetheless ready for an replace on Waititi’s script.
We’ll must see if anybody on the Lucasfilm/Kinberg aspect sheds any mild on the conflicting experiences, but it surely’s nonetheless fairly stunning information regardless. To wrap your head round the remainder of it, take a look at our breakdown of each upcoming Star Wars movie and TV present.
Alex Stedman is a Senior News Editor with IGN, overseeing leisure reporting. When she’s not writing or enhancing, you’ll find her studying fantasy novels or taking part in Dungeons & Dragons.
