The next mainline\u00a0Star Wars\u00a0movie has a director in Jon Watts.<\/p>\n
Per the Hollywood Reporter<\/a> (building off initial reporting from Knight Edge Media<\/a>), Watts will helm the first installment in what\u2019s said to be a trilogy penned by Simon Kinberg<\/a>. It\u2019s expected that this set of films will take place post-Rise of Skywalker\u00a0and continue the Skywalker Saga. THR further claimed Daisy Ridley\u2019s Rey will feature in this new set of sequels in some capacity, though it\u2019s currently unclear how.<\/p>\n At time of writing, this first film hasn\u2019t been greenlit by Disney yet. But of the franchise\u2019 many films<\/a> that\u2019ve been announced (or implied to be in development), this is reportedly the \u201cfurthest along.\u201d Either way, the movie brings Watts and Kinberg back to the fold: the former co-created and directed the short-lived Skeleton Crew<\/a>,\u00a0while Kinberg wrote and co-created\u00a0Star Wars Rebels.<\/p>\n Outside this franchise, both men are Marvel alums, with Kinberg having written or produced several X-Men\u00a0films and Watts directing the\u00a0Home\u00a0trilogy of Spider-Man movies. (And almost directing<\/a> the most recent\u00a0Fantastic Four\u00a0film.)<\/p>\n Disney\u2019s been struggling with making Star Wars\u00a0movies for years now, so jury\u2019s out on whether Watts and Kinberg\u2019s film will see the light of day. We\u2019ll have more on the situation as it develops\u2014until then, the franchise returns to theaters with\u00a0Star Wars: Starfighter\u00a0on May 28, 2027.<\/p>\n Want more io9 news? Check out the best movies and TV shows<\/a> to stream this month and all the upcoming sci-fi, fantasy, and horror books<\/a> that should be on your radar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The next mainline\u00a0Star Wars\u00a0movie has a director in Jon Watts. Per the Hollywood Reporter (building off initial reporting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":783899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,107478,23067,2839,37469,2591,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-783898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-jon-watts","tag-lucasfilm","tag-movies","tag-simon-kinberg","tag-star-wars","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}