The next Trilogy begins December, 2022...

^ Only question is can they come up with a great story and do some epic world building without following a book?

Like JJ Abrams is a good Director, but the story for TFA was lame. But then again his weakness was his obsession with going overboard on nostalgia.

I certainly think it can be good(I'm assuming it will indeed be set in the Old Republic era.) But like ares said, it's extremely hard to be optimistic, given...well...everything.

Originally posted by Galan007
So yeah, it's confirmed that the next Star Wars film(s) following Ep.IX will be from Benioff and Weiss.

Ooh what a shame...

No idea why theyre keeping Kennedy around. Shes messes up so many times with this picking of Directors. Which is basically her main job.

Better the devil they know than some other yahoo picked at random. They tried that with Rian Johnson. Womp womp.

Also it might be in her contract to keep her around for X amount of years/projects. She's signed until 2021 currently. She came in from Lucas's deal as co-chair of Lucasfilm afterall. She's also hella connected to the wider film industry and the Disney films are still turning an overall profit. Fan entitlement isn't enough to trump that.

Since DnD have left the project, it has been confirmed that the intended focus of their series of movies was going to be about the origin of the Jedi, and how they came to exist.

...It's a story I would've liked to see, tbh.

Originally posted by Lord Lucien
Better the devil they know than some other yahoo picked at random. They tried that with Rian Johnson. Womp womp.

Also it might be in her contract to keep her around for X amount of years/projects. She's signed until 2021 currently. She came in from Lucas's deal as co-chair of Lucasfilm afterall. She's also hella connected to the wider film industry and the Disney films are still turning an overall profit. Fan entitlement isn't enough to trump that.

They renewed her contract just like last year which is what im confused about.

They are making profit, but shes not the only person involved. And from what I can tell, she keeps messing up on her only job, which is to pick directors for these films.

That was especially costly for Solo, which flopped due to its budget, not revenue. And the budget was ridiculously high, because they had to reshoot the entire film after switching directors.

Things like this Benioff and Weiss, is more of an embarrassment. Like they announced their trilogy as the next 3 Star Wars films.

Anyway we will see what happens. I doubt they will keep her around after her current contract expires. Or they might share her responsibilities with someone like Kevin Feige (we know thats happening for 1 film at least).

Originally posted by Galan007
Since DnD have left the project, it has been confirmed that the intended focus of their series of movies was going to be about the origin of the Jedi, and how they came to exist.

...It's a story I would've liked to see, tbh.

Originally posted by Darth Thor
They renewed her contract just like last year which is what im confused about.

They are making profit, but shes not the only person involved. And from what I can tell, she keeps messing up on her only job, which is to pick directors for these films.

That was especially costly for Solo, which flopped due to its budget, not revenue. And the budget was ridiculously high, because they had to reshoot the entire film after switching directors.

Things like this Benioff and Weiss, is more of an embarrassment. Like they announced their trilogy as the next 3 Star Wars films.

Anyway we will see what happens. I doubt they will keep her around after her current contract expires. Or they might share her responsibilities with someone like Kevin Feige (we know thats happening for 1 film at least).