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Star Wars 9now has five screenwriters to its name and is on the fourth major edition of its handwriting . Today we ’re move to take a look at the continued attempts to wrap up the Skywalker Saga in a acceptable manner .
Finishing what he started , J.J. Abrams has come ontoEpisode IXas director and atomic number 27 - author with Chris Terrio , put back therecently departed Colin Trevorrow . There has been a semi - predictable sundry reaction to this designation , mainly due to Abrams playing it narratively secure withThe Force Awakensand Terrio ’s major connections to the DC Extended Universe ( he rewroteBatman v Supermanand worked on the story and screenplay forJustice League ) . However , both of these complaints do seem to ignore the bigger circumstance of those motion picture -Episode VIIhad a set of weight unit on it so had to be a mega - hit , while Terrio ’s wrestling with directing and editing publication in the DCEU - and , indeed , ofStar Wars 9itself .
WhenEpisode IXarrives in December 2019 , it will have been in active development for over four long time . And it ’s a tumultuous prison term for Kathleen Kennedy ’s Lucasfilm , withHan Sologoing through a director change - up almost ( but not exactly)85 % of the manner through production , and nowEpisode IXhaving to make a similar switch after two years of pre - production . Abrams and Terrio are clearly there to do two things : deliver a satisfying ending and do it without any play .
But whileSolo ’s behind - the - scenery developmentshave been well - documented aid of candid coverage , the story ofEpisode IX- which , lest we leave , is still well over two years out - is a more mysterious one . Let ’s dive into it .
Now , before we begin , first a little clarification . Obviously , most movies have multiple drafts . That ’s the only way to refine complex approximation across a sprawling 120 - page script . And it ’s not uncommon for new writer to come in and stiffen up a absent screenplay later on in pre - production either . However , withStar Wars 9we’re dealing with something different . Each of these rewrites is a distinct go around that explicitly move beyond what come before . We ’re sureEpisode IXwill be all good when it arrives in a couple of year , but it ’s certainly taken quite a few parsec to get here .
The First Trevorrow/Connolly Script
It was reported in 2014 when Rian Johnson was lease forThe Last Jedithat he was working on a story discourse . That was sincedenied by the filmmaker , but due to his role in the trilogy ’s middle Episode will have had a hand in chromosome mapping out the game program . Script - wise , Trevorrow joinedStar Wars 9as conductor in mid-2015 , with him and writing better half Derek Connolly started oeuvre on this script that same class .
WhenThe Force Awakensrolled around , the director say thatthe ending was n’t yet put , and a few month afterward Kennedy backed this up saying there was an on-going give-and-take overwhetherEpisode IXwas the goal of the story or not . Of naturally , given the lengthy pre - production , Lucasfilm still finding their feet in the new era and the writers also form onThe Book of Henry , this prolong developing was to be expected .
We do n’t know how far along this screenplay let due to the nasty privacy at Lucasfilm and three impending movies to distract . There were rumors ofan April 2017 filming first datethat would suggest things were beginning to really coalesce at 2016 drew to a close , but those are dispute . It was later enounce by Kennedy in April 2017 itself thatshe had n’t read a script yet , although she may have been referring to a subsequent , deepen draft .
The Sans-Leia Script
The destruction of Carrie Fisher appears to have hitStar Wars 9hard . IfThe Force Awakenswas Han Solo ’s movie andThe Last JediLuke ’s , thenEpisode IXwas set to be Leia ’s ; by all accounts was get to have a bigger office than in either previous sequel , intend Fisher ’s tragic release had a fundamental encroachment on the movie . Trevorrow met with Kennedy in other 2017 to discuss how to proceed , which lead to much meditation in the fanbase about CGI body double or repurposed footage ( both methods Lucasfilm had trialed inRogue One ) , but atStar WarsCelebration it was confirmed thatLeia would n’t seem at all .
This apparently meant she had to be written out completely and , as a meat of the story , a rejig of the liberal picture was needed . At Celebration , Kennedy also suppose they " pretty much started over " . Now that could mean the entire matter was rebuild from the ground up , but it ’s worth target out that ’s vague on purpose - there could have been a more chop shot and change position . While how big the changes are again up to discussion , what we know ( per Trevorrow ) is thata double-dyed draft copy of this new interlingual rendition was done by April 2017 .
The Jack Thorne Rewrite
In August 2017,Jack Thorne came on circuit board to do a revision of the playscript . specific were and stay on unforthcoming , but at the least we hump he was give the Non - Leia handwriting a polish up .
However , if we copulate his hiring with another behind - the - scenes turn we may get something more . Shortly after Trevorrow exit it was reported it was a consequence of him beingdifficult , egotistical and above all " really , really , really confident " . It ’s possible he was improbably sure in a adaptation of the account that Kathleen Kennedy did n’t call up was up to call off , so she bring in a tried - and - tested outside articulation to punch it up . Whether Thorne ’s take still was n’t up to sniff or Trevorrow just continued down the same driven way is unknown , but we do recognise how it ended up : both are no longer link to the labor .
The Abrams/Terrio Script
And so we get to what will be - stop another authoritative Lucasfilm SNAFU - the former basis for the shooting script . A week after Trevorrow was fired , J.J. Abrams number on as director . Second to the promulgation was that he andChris Terrio will be co - write the screenplay with him .
Because Lucasfilm seldom officially addresses their misapprehension , we ’ve no idea if this is a rescript of old versions or a staring reset . However , the fact that none of the previous writer are admit propose that we ’re make something of an renovation .
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The unseen force-out here is theStar Wars Story Group , who have a big influence on the direction of the franchise and the movie ' ultimate end ( although in an idealistic world would n’t totally override a director ’s visual sense ) . It ’s probable that much of what ’s gone down in the past two years - the dealership ’s mega - successful return key withThe Force Awakens , Rogue Oneproving theStar WarsStory initiative works and the end of Carrie Fisher - had a considerable influence in where they wanted the Skywalker Saga to go , especially in terms of place up further Episodes . But , from everything we ’ve heard , this is the clearest orderliness of events .
We wo n’t have it off quite what the genesis ofStar Wars 9 ’s story was until well after the moving picture , but right now then we can say one thing with sure thing ; the author credits are going to be interesting .
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