New New New Star Wars

Here we go again: Lucasfilm has hired Simon Kinberg to write and produce a new (new new) trilogy of Star Wars films, which will allegedly consist of Episodes X-XII of the franchise. These films may or may not be a continuation of the Skywalker Saga, Deadline’s Mike Fleming reports this will be a new saga, but he also heard it could be continuing the Skywalker story. Who can never be sure.

Kinberg is familiar with Star Wars, having co-created Star Wars Rebels and consulted on Star Wars: The Force Awakens. He also comes from the world of franchise filmmaking, having written and/or produced films for the X-Men, Deadpool, and Sherlock Holmes franchises, and he’s one of the credited writers on Fant4stic. Cool cool cool. I also don’t know what this does to Kinberg’s relationship with Paramount, where he is supposedly producing a new Star Trek film, although JJ Abrams hopped from one franchise to the other (to decidedly mixed results), too.

The next Star Wars film on the docket—the only one actually slated to come out—is The Mandalorian & Grogu, which just wrapped production last month. It’s scheduled for a May 22, 2026 release, which means we won’t see whatever Kinberg is doing until at least 2027, if ever. After trilogies from Rian Johnson and David Benioff & D.B. Weiss fell through, never mind all the stalled or abandoned projects by Patty Jenkins, Colin Trevorrow, Taika Waititi, and Kevin Feige—just to name a FEW—have fallen apart, who even believes we’ll see this? At least on the film side, we have officially reached “I’ll believe it when I see it” status with Star Wars.

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