{"id":784530,"date":"2026-09-27T18:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/784530\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T18:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:54:10","slug":"star-wars-jon-watts-reported-to-direct-next-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/784530\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars: Jon Watts Reported To Direct Next Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Punch it, Chewie: it sounds like Jon Watts is coming back to Star Wars<\/a>. For a while now, the future of Star Wars movies \u2013 beyond next year\u2019s in-the-can Starfighter<\/a>, directed by Shawn Levy \u2013 has been subject to several writers (from Damon Lindelof<\/a>, to Steven Knight<\/a>) and several directors. But a new report indicates that the next era of the galaxy far, far away is finally firming up, with Simon Kinberg having spent a couple of years now as the writer in charge of cooking up a new trilogy<\/a> in the saga. According to The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> (and Knight Edge Media), Watts is the director who\u2019ll be leading the way \u2013 and he not only has form in handling major franchises, having delivered the multi-billion grossing Spider-Man \u2018Home\u2019<\/a> MCU trilogy, but he\u2019s no stranger to Star Wars either, having co-created Disney+ pirate adventure series Skeleton Crew<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While Lucasfilm hasn\u2019t commented on the reports, there is plenty to speculate on, regarding Watts and Kinberg\u2019s film. It\u2019s heavily rumoured that Kinberg\u2019s trilogy could be a new Skywalker Saga trilogy, which would make Watts\u2019 film an official Episode X (though this is unconfirmed). It\u2019s also expected that Kinberg\u2019s story will feature Daisy Ridley\u2019s long-announced return as Rey Skywalker<\/a>; if so, it\u2019s unclear whether Watts\u2019 film would subsume, or replace, or co-exist with Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy\u2019s \u2018New Jedi Order\u2019 film. And the report states that Watts\u2019 film is not officially greenlit by Disney yet, so keep that in mind.<\/p>\n

Since Star Wars: Starfighter will move the saga forward in May 2027 \u2013 the first canon film or TV project set beyond the events of Episode IX: The Rise Of Skywalker \u2013 it remains to be seen if it will set in motion events to be picked up in the film Watts could direct. Either way, the director has proven he knows how to bring charm and adventure to the galaxy, with Skeleton Crew\u2019s romping tone and Goonies-style narrative. Stay tuned to see if this kyber crystal successfully ignites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Punch it, Chewie: it sounds like Jon Watts is coming back to Star Wars. For a while now,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-784530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784530","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=784530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}