VIDEO : Was J.J. Abrams Really The First Offered To Direct Episode IX?

Star Wars trilogy to an end. J.J. Abrams is the man who will write and direct Star Wars: Episode IX, but he wasn?t the first person Lucasfilm came to with an offer. If a new report is to be believed, then Rian Johnson had first dibs on the blockbuster.
Deadline is the site who scooped Abrams? hire to the press, but its original article made a note about Johnson.