Lucasfilm has closed a deal with Simon Kinberg, the American filmmaker partially known for writing and producing a number of X-Men films for 20th Century Fox, to develop a third trilogy of Star Wars films, according to a new Deadline report. Kinberg, who made his directorial debut in 2019 with Dark Phoenix, is writing all three films, which will be produced by Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy. “I think The Rise of Skywalker is poorly directed, terribly filmed, clumsily edited, lamely scripted (a perennial problem, that one) and badly acted,” reads a review for the sequel-trilogy capper that was published shortly after the film’s theatrical release on December 20, 2019.
I heard this will comprise episodes 10-12 of The Skywalker Saga that began with George Lucas’s 1977 first film that along with Steven Spielberg’s Jaws reshaped the global blockbuster game. Insiders disputed my intel that Kinberg will continue that storyline, saying this will instead begin a new saga, and sit alongside Star Wars percolating projects with James Mangold, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Taika Waititi and Donald Glover.