Lucasfilm is adding an entire new trilogy of movies to its increasingly filled (for now) slate of Star Wars projects—one that could carry on the fabled Skywalker Saga with the official Episodes 10, 11, and 12.
Deadline reports that Simon Kinberg—producer of many of the X-Men films, as well as, in the galaxy far, far away, Star Wars Rebels alongside Carrie Beck and Dave Filoni—has been tapped to write the new trilogy, as well as produce alongside Kathleen Kennedy. The trade further reports that it has heard that this trilogy of films could be the official 10th, 11th, and 12th entries in the Skywalker Saga made up of the prequel, original, and sequel trilogies, but also notes that that idea has been disputed by several insiders, instead citing that the trilogy will be a new, standalone series of films.
A source close to production also disputed this with io9, describing the trilogy, in the very early stages of development, as the beginning of a new Star Wars saga designed to sit alongside the studio’s myriad other projects.
The potential for this trilogy of films to have been a definitive continuation of the Skywalker Saga would’ve been a wild decision—especially as one of those now-many Star Wars films currently in development at Lucasfilm is meant to follow on from The Rise of Skywalker already, in the form of Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Daisy Ridley’s New Jedi Order film, with the latter reprising her role as Jedi Master Rey Skywalker. Presumably it would be that film (if it ever happens) that would pick up on the lingering story threads that remain from the sequel trilogy.
So either this new trilogy, if connected to the primary saga, could sit alongside standalone films within a similar pace in Star Wars continuity, or could potentially bring the timeline even further beyond the sequels to give space for other films to pick up on their characters. It could still be Episodes 10 through 12, and not necessarily deemed to be part of the Skywalker Saga, and just borrow the nomenclature to be its own thing.
Or it could never get made entirely! Lucasfilm has spent the five years since The Rise of Skywalker announcing a lot of things that it then ends up not actually making, so Star Wars fans have developed an inherent skepticism to any kind of movie announcement at this point. Projects in the works alongside this purported trilogy include the three films previously announced at Star Wars Celebration Europe in 2023—the aforementioned Rey film, James Mangold’s “Dawn of the Jedi” movie, and Dave Filoni’s “Mandoverse” team-up film, widely believed to be a riff on the classic Timothy Zahn novels in the Heir to the Empire trilogy—as well as a Lando Calrissian movie, formerly announced as a TV series, penned by Solo‘s Donald Glover alongside his brother Stephen; Taika Waititi’s long-in-gestation movie; and the only film we actually know there’s been footage shot for so far, Jon Favreau’s The Mandalorian & Grogu, set to release in 2026. Hell, the studio’s still not technically scrapped Rian Johnson’s trilogy, either!
But those films have also sat along a string of high-profile announcements of projects that have ultimately been scrapped in the last five years too, including a Rogue Squadron movie from Patty Jenkins, a film in development from Marvel Studio’s Kevin Feige, one from Guillermo Del Toro, and more. Lucasfilm is in the midst of charting an uncertain future for Star Wars both on the big screen and small in the wake of the sudden cancellation of The Acolyte—and announcing more movies is not going to convince Star Wars fans they’re actually going to happen any time soon… and at this point, they probably won’t believe it until they’re seated in the theater.
We’ll bring you more on Lucasfilm’s ever-evolving plans for Star Wars as and when we hear them.
Additional reporting by Germain Lussier.
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