Date 10/11/2017 - News People
Lucasfilm announced today that Episode VIII director Rian Johnson will helm a new Star Wars trilogy, ?the first of which he is also set to write and direct.
Website UpRoxx shares that for the first time in the franchise?s episodic history the new trilogy won?t focus on the Skywalker family. ?Johnson will introduce new characters from a corner of the galaxy that Star Wars lore has never before explored,? according to the official Star Wars website.
Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy in a statement. ?He?s a creative force, and watching him craft The Last Jedi from start to finish was one of the great joys of my career."
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