It’s starting to feel like Lucasfilm is punking Star Wars fans with the number of projects they’ve announced and cancelled over the last few years. All the more reason for us to be a little skeptical about this new report from THR.
According to the entertainment site, Disney and Lucasfilm have just signed a deal with Simon Kinberg to write and produce a new Star Wars Trilogy. The question as to whether this new set of films will continue the saga of the first nine films, or go in a new direction, there appears to be a bit of a contradiction. So, instead of talking about what’s coming, let’s focus on where we’ve gone with Kinberg before.
On the upside, Kinberg has written or produced films and projects like Mr and Mrs Smith, Star Wars Rebels, Logan, Deadpool 2, Deadpool and Wolverine, The Martian, and Sherlock Holmes. It’s also fairly well known that Kinberg is a true fan of the Star Wars franchise.
On the downside, Kinberg has also had his fingers in Fan4Stick, X-Men: Apocalypse, X-Men: Dark Phoenix, and XXX: State of the Union.
In other words, we don’t know which version of Kinberg we’ll be getting, but at least we know he loves Star Wars.
In the meantime, the next big Star Wars release will be Jude Law and Jon Watts’ Skeleton Crew later this month, followed by The upcoming Mandalorian and Grogu film and a repeatedly delayed Rey Skywalker film that could very well get upended by the Kinberg trilogy.
Wax on, or Wax off?
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