Now we know when we'll see 'Star Wars Episode IX'
You may have been enjoying watching Star Wars movies during the holiday season, but that's about to come to an end.
Disney and Lucasfilm announced the release date of the still-untitled Star Wars Episode IX on Tuesday, and it's May 24, 2019.
That's almost exactly a year after the release of the Han Solo standalone movie, also currently untitled.
Episode VIII, aka The Last Jedi, is coming out this December -- as did Rogue One and The Force Awakens.
But May is more traditional when it comes to Star Wars; the original movie arrived on May 25, 1977, and all subsequent Star Wars films followed suit with early summer releases.
Of course, this could all change -- after all, The Force Awakens was initially slated for a summer release too.
Director Colin Trevorrow says he has completed the script for Episode IX, which will likely start shooting in 2018. An early reading is rumored to happen soon.
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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.
