Star Wars : The Last Jediwriter and director Rian Johnson is create a brand newStar Warstrilogy for Lucasfilm , but the question is , will the new movies be part of the on-going Skywalker saga ? just put : no . George Lucas ' original 1977Star Warsfilm breed one of the giving multimedia franchise in account , revolve around almost wholly on the Skywalker folk . After expanding the story with two sequel -The Empire Strikes BackandReturn of the Jedi- the film maker render with his prequel trilogy to show how it all come to pass .

Star warfare : Episode III - Revenge of the Sithwas meant to conclude the Skywalker saga , but Disney ended up get the dealership back to living when they acquired Lucasfilm and all of its assets in 2012 and subsequently announce architectural plan to create a sequel trilogy to Lucas ' original films . What ’s more , the sequel trilogy - which began with J.J. Abrams’Star Wars : Episode VII - The Force Awakensand concludes with Abrams’Star Wars : Episode IX- is currently in the thick of establishing new characters while also bringing the Skywalker saga to an end - or does Lucasfilm have something else in mind ?

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Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy has routinely said thatthey plan on moving beyond the Skywalker familyat some point in the futurity , but she never perpetrate to a specific time frame . study that Lucas in the beginning intended for nine movies to order the Skywalkers ' story , it seems that Abrams ' 2019 movie may finally wrap up up their fib , which has both ruined and saved theStar Warsgalaxy more than its fair percentage of times . AndStar Warsfans who are wondering if Johnson ’s newfangled trilogy will continue to tell stories revolving around Rey , Finn , or Ben ( Kylo Ren ) - it wo n’t .

At the moment , all eye are onThe Last Jedi ’s outlet next month , and Johnson plans on taking a break from the nub saga before return to helm the first episode in his new trilogy , which is why he ’s not involved with Abrams’Episode IX . And when Johnson does generate to the worktable , he will be dive deep into his imagery , creating a brand novel niche of theStar Warsgalaxy that has never before been explored , one that will standapart from the episodic Skywalker saga .

However , that does n’t intend the studio wo n’t proceed enjoin more Skywalker tale elsewhere , it just means thatJohnson ’s new trilogy is NOTStar war : Episode X , XI , andXII . But that also does n’t intend his trilogy will relate to the currentStar Warsanthology movie either . Overall , it ’s difficult to classify what Johnson ’s newStar Warstrilogy is because this is uncharted dominion for Lucasfilm - both literally and figuratively . Whatever happens , just do n’t expect Mark Hamill to on the spur of the moment appear on - screen , slowly turning around to face the tv camera without uttering a unmarried tidings .

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