Disney and Lucasfilm are going with a familiar name to close out the new trilogy of Star Wars films. The currently untitled Episode IX will be directed by..<\/b>
\nDisney and Lucasfilm are going with a familiar name to close out the new trilogy of Star Wars films.
The currently untitled Episode IX will be directed by J. Abrams, who previously directed and co-wrote The Force Awakens. This time around, he\u2019 ll be writing the script with Chris Terrio (who won an Oscar for Argo, then worked on Batman v. Superman and Justice League) .
Episode IX\u2019s previously announced director, Colin Trevorrow, departed the film last week, with Lucasfilm saying, \u201cWe have all come to the conclusion that our visions for the project differ.\u201d Trevorrow was just the latest of several directors \u2014 Josh Trank, Phil Lord and Chris Miller, plus Gareth Edwards, who was sidelined during reshoots on Rogue One \u2014 who appear to have been fired from Star Wars directing gigs.
All of them were relatively inexperienced when it came to live action blockbusters, so it\u2019s not surprising that Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy decided to go with a known quantity this time around, especially when Episode\u2019s IX\u2019s release date of May 24,2019 is less than two years away (maybe Abrams will talk Lucasfilm into pushing the date back, as he did with Force Awakens) .
Abrams, meanwhile, has been active as a producer, but he hasn\u2019 t signed on to direct a new film since The Force Awakens was released. This will make him the first person besides George Lucas to direct more than one Star Wars movie.<\/p>\n

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