Spider-Man series director and Skeleton Crew co-creator will reportedly guide first film in Simon Kinberg-penned trilogy<\/p>\n
\n\tStar Wars<\/a> producers have enlisted director Jon Watts<\/a> to helm the next installment in the series\u2019 \u201cSkywalker Saga.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tWatts \u2014 who directed the first three films in Tom Holland\u2019s Spider-Man series as well as co-created Star Wars\u2019 Skeleton Crew Disney+ series<\/a> \u2014 will guide Episode X, Variety reports<\/a>, the first film in what\u2019s been reported as the next trilogy in the \u201cSkywalker Saga.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe original trilogy \u2014 A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi \u2014 was followed by a prequel trilogy (The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith) and then the most recent trilogy, 2015\u2019s The Force Awakens, 2017\u2019s The Last Jedi, and 2019\u2019s The Rise of Skywalker.<\/p>\n \n\tIn 2024, Star Wars producers revealed that Simon Kinberg, the screenwriter of a handful of X-Men movies, would pen the planned trilogy; while not much is known about the new trilogy, it\u2019s believed Daisy Ridley\u2019s Rey would play a central role in the story, the Hollywood Reporter writes<\/a>.<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n \n\tStar Wars\u2019 big screen output slowed in the half-decade after The Rise of Skywalker, with this past summer\u2019s The Mandalorian and Grogu<\/a> the first Star Wars film since 2019. Another standalone film, the Ryan Gosling-starring Starfighter<\/a>, is due out in May 2027, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of A New Hope.<\/p>\n \n\tStar Wars has not yet confirmed Watts\u2019 hiring for Episode X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spider-Man series director and Skeleton Crew co-creator will reportedly guide first film in Simon Kinberg-penned trilogy Star Wars…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":907599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,45091,344,31331],"class_list":["post-907598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-jon-watts","tag-movies","tag-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/907599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}