J.J. Abrams Returns for ‘Star Wars: Episode IX’

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J.J. Abrams has signed on to return and write and direct Star Wars: Episode IX. The movie will be out on December 20th, 2019.

J.J. Abrams, who launched a new era of Star Wars with The Force Awakens in 2015, is returning to complete the sequel trilogy as writer and director of Star Wars: Episode IX. Abrams will co-write the film with Chris Terrio. Star Wars: Episode IX will be produced by Kathleen Kennedy, Michelle Rejwan, Abrams, Bad Robot, and Lucasfilm.
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This is great news.

 

I'm okay with this just because of how great TFA was. Definitely not my first (or second or third) choice, though.

 

JJ Abrams directing again and now the film is also delayed by a few months.

Thanks for the mess, Trevorrow

 

Worth the mess. So stoked!

 

Would rather have had Johnson back honestly.

 

Considering there's a track record now of them canning directors and doing rewrites and reshoots, a little unfair to put it all on Trevorrow.

 

Im ecstatic with this, I loved TFA, wish he woulda just done the complete trilogy now.

 

blaaaaaah

 

Amped for J.J.

 

Boring. Give it to a woman or someone who hasn't made their mark on the franchise yet.

 

For some reason this sounds sarcastic, but this'd be nice. Star Wars is a good way to introduce the biggest possible audience with things they aren't used to seeing.

 

If this is anothee soft reboot i'll be so pissed

 

David Lynch turned down directing return of the jedi. Can u imagine what that movie would have been like? Ewoks would be scary as fuck

 

Not sarcastic at all.

 

why would this be a soft reboot? and what was the first?

 

TFA and TFA

 

The first was a soft reboot