{"id":862133,"date":"2026-09-27T05:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T05:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/862133\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T05:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T05:42:09","slug":"star-wars-continuing-skywalker-saga-with-director-jon-watts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/862133\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Star Wars&#8217; Continuing Skywalker Saga With Director Jon Watts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAfter eight years and countless entries in the expanding onscreen universe, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/star-wars\/\" id=\"auto-tag_star-wars\" data-tag=\"star-wars\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Star Wars<\/a> is revisiting the Skywalker family with its next project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDeadline can confirm that <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/lucasfilm\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lucasfilm\" data-tag=\"lucasfilm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lucasfilm<\/a> has tapped Skeleton Crew co-creator <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/jon-watts\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jon-watts\" data-tag=\"jon-watts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Watts<\/a> (director of Spider-Man: Homecoming, Spider-Man: Far From Home and Spider-Man: No Way Home) to helm the first installment in a new trilogy of the Skywalker Saga, which is being penned by <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/simon-kinberg\/\" id=\"auto-tag_simon-kinberg\" data-tag=\"simon-kinberg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Simon Kinberg<\/a> (X-Men: Dark Phoenix, Prime\u2019s Mr. &amp; Mrs. Smith).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tKinberg, who previously co-created the DisneyXD animated series Star Wars Rebels (2014-\u201918), has been working on the new trilogy since 2018, with Daisy Ridley reportedly eyed to reprise her role as Rey, as it will serve in the next chapter of the Skywalker Saga.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe project reportedly has not yet received a greenlight from parent company Disney.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBeginning with Star Wars: Episode IV \u2014\u00a0A New Hope in 1977 and the sequels Episode V \u2014\u00a0The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Episode VI \u2014 Return of the Jedi (1983), the Skywalker Saga continued with the prequel trilogy Episode I \u2014 The Phantom Menace (1999), Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002) and Episode III \u2014 Revenge of the Sith (2005).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMost recently, the franchise left off the Skywalker Saga with the latest trilogy, Star Wars: Episode VII \u2014 The Force Awakens (2015), Episode VIII \u2014 The Last Jedi (2017) and Episode IX \u2014 The Rise of Skywalker (2019), which was led by Ridley\u2019s Rey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSince the last chapter in the Skywalker Saga, the Star Wars franchise has expanded with films and streaming series set throughout the onscreen universe, with the next installment Star Wars: Starfighter set for a May 28, 2027 premiere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLucasfilm had no comment. <a href=\"https:\/\/knightedgemedia.com\/2026\/09\/lucasfilm-circling-director-jon-watts-to-helm-star-wars-episode-x-exclusive\/?fsp_sid=16757\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Knight Edge Media<\/a> was first to report the news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After eight years and countless entries in the expanding onscreen universe, Star Wars is revisiting the Skywalker family&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":862134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,71546,9466,152291,5295],"class_list":["post-862133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-jon-watts","tag-lucasfilm","tag-simon-kinberg","tag-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}