There's going to be a brand new, non-Skywalker Star Wars trilogy
Even before The Last Jedi hits theaters on December 15, director Rian Johnson has a new Star Wars gig.
He'll be producing the first ever Star Wars trilogy of movies that isn't part of the Skywalker saga, Lucasfilm announced Thursday -- alongside a simultaneous announcement of a new TV show.
"Johnson will create a brand-new Star Wars trilogy, the first of which he is also set to write and direct," read the announcement on StarWars.com.
Lucasfilm also gave us a tiny clue on the subject of the new trilogy: you haven't seen it. "Johnson will introduce new characters from a corner of the galaxy that Star Wars lore has never before explored."
"Rian will do amazing things with the blank canvas of this new trilogy," Lucasfilm president Kathy Kennedy said.
Johnson added that Star Wars was "the greatest modern mythology" and that he was looking forward to developing it.
No further details were available on the subject of the new trilogy, though the announcement added that "no porgs were available for comment" -- suggesting, perhaps, that we have not seen the last of The Last Jedi's cutest critters.
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Chris is a veteran tech, entertainment and culture journalist, author of 'How Star Wars Conquered the Universe,' and co-host of the Doctor Who podcast 'Pull to Open.' Hailing from the U.K., Chris got his start as a sub editor on national newspapers. He moved to the U.S. in 1996, and became senior news writer for Time.com a year later. In 2000, he was named San Francisco bureau chief for Time magazine. He has served as senior editor for Business 2.0, and West Coast editor for Fortune Small Business and Fast Company. Chris is a graduate of Merton College, Oxford and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is also a long-time volunteer at 826 Valencia, the nationwide after-school program co-founded by author Dave Eggers. His book on the history of Star Wars is an international bestseller and has been translated into 11 languages.
