{"id":911167,"date":"2026-09-27T04:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T04:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/911167\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T04:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T04:06:11","slug":"spideys-jon-watts-to-direct-next-star-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/911167\/","title":{"rendered":"Spidey’s Jon Watts To Direct Next “Star Wars”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Lucasfilm<\/p>\n

Filmmaker Jon Watts has been attached to direct the first film in the new \u201cStar Wars\u201d film trilogy at Lucasfilm. The report first arrived via scooper DanielRPK<\/a> and was later confirmed by the trades, including THR<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is the Simon Kinberg-penned trilogy with events set after those of the sequel trilogy and its final entry, 2019\u2019s \u201cStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker\u201d.<\/p>\n

Watts most famously directed the first three Tom Holland-led \u201cSpider-Man\u201d movies, starting with \u201cSpider-Man: Homecoming\u201d through to \u201cSpider-Man: No Way Home\u201d.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s also worked on Star Wars, serving as showrunner and helming some episodes of the \u201cSkeleton Crew\u201d TV series on Disney+.<\/p>\n

On Monday, a report said a director has been selected for the gig, but it didn\u2019t say who. That report claimed production is picking up steam fast and could begin filming as early as 2027.<\/p>\n

The trade report today says that while the film has not yet been greenlit by parent company Disney, it\u2019s the project furthest along the development track after Shawn Levy\u2019s \u201cStar Wars: Starfighter\u201d opening in cinemas in May next year.<\/p>\n

In addition, they indicate that Daisy Ridley\u2019s Rey Skywalker will appear in some capacity in the new trilogy.<\/p>\n

Aside from \u2018Starfighter\u2019 in May, next year will also see the original theatrical version of 1977\u2019s \u201cStar Wars\u201d return to cinemas in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lucasfilm Filmmaker Jon Watts has been attached to direct the first film in the new \u201cStar Wars\u201d film…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":911168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[112110,49,48,75],"class_list":["post-911167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-bigslider","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}