There’s going to be a brand new, non-Skywalker Star Wars trilogy

Even before The Last Jedi hits theaters, director Rian Johnson has a new Star Wars gig. 

He’ll be producing the first ever Star Wars trilogy of movies that isn’t part of the Skywalker saga, Lucasfilm announced Thursday.

“Johnson will create a brand-new Star Wars trilogy, the first of which he is also set to write and direct,” read the announcement on StarWars.com. 

“Rian will do amazing things with the blank canvas of this new trilogy,” Lucasfilm president Kathy Kennedy said. 

Johnson added that Star Wars was “the greatest modern mythology” and that he was looking forward to developing it.

No further details were available on the subject of the new trilogy, though the announcement added that “no porgs were available for comment” — suggesting, perhaps, that we have seen the last of The Last Jedi‘s cutest critters.  Read more…

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