{"id":7068780,"date":"2026-09-28T02:33:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T02:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/star-wars-wants-jon-watts-to-direct-next-skywalker-movie\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T02:33:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T02:33:30","slug":"star-wars-wants-jon-watts-to-direct-next-skywalker-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7068780","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Star Wars\u2019 Wants Jon Watts to Direct Next Skywalker Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"


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There are\u00a0many Star Wars<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>projects that Lucasfilm announced in recent years but then never actually made. They include a trilogy of films from\u00a0The Last Jedi\u00a0<\/em>director Rian Johnson, a project from Marvel\u00a0president Kevin Feige, a movie from James Mangold that would be about the earliest origins of the Jedi, and a film following Daisy Ridley\u2019s Rey from the Disney sequel trilogy that would effectively be a sequel to\u00a0Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.<\/em> (Those are some of the titles Lucasfilm put into development. There are more.)<\/p>\n

None of those movies went into production. At this point, odds are very few of them will. But\u00a0Deadline<\/a>\u00a0reported over the weekend that Lucasfilm has \u201ctapped Skeleton Crew<\/em> co-creator Jon Watts<\/a> (director of Spider-Man: Homecoming<\/em>, Spider-Man: Far From Home<\/em> and Spider-Man: No Way Home<\/em>) to helm the first installment in a new trilogy of the Skywalker Saga, which is being penned by Simon Kinberg (X-Men: Dark Phoenix<\/em>, Prime\u2019s Mr. & Mrs. Smith<\/em>).\u201d<\/p>\n

They also note that Lucasfilm has \u201cDaisy Ridley<\/a> reportedly eyed to reprise her role as Rey, as it will serve in the next chapter of the Skywalker Saga.\u201d (Where this would leave that other Rey project, which would have been directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and written by George Nolfi is not made clear.)<\/p>\n

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Watts helmed the first three Spider-Man films from Marvel Studios, starring Tom Holland as Spidey. After he concluded that trilogy, he served as creator and showrunner on one of\u00a0Star Wars<\/em>\u2019 more well-received TV series on Disney+,\u00a0Skeleton Crew<\/em>, a\u00a0Goonies-<\/em>esque adventure about a bunch of kids who wind up lost in space and must find their way back to their home planet.<\/p>\n

The previous (and supposedly final) installment of the Skywalker Saga,\u00a0The Rise of Skywalker,\u00a0<\/em>opened in theaters in late 2019, and it took from then until earlier this summer for Lucasfilm to finally get another\u00a0Star Wars\u00a0<\/em>film into multiplexes. When it arrived it was\u00a0The Mandalorian and Grogu<\/em>, based on the popular Disney+ series.<\/p>\n

The film got okay reviews\u00a0and\u00a0severely underperformed at the box office; it will go down in history as Disney\u2019s lowest-grossing\u00a0Star Wars<\/em> film to date. It\u2019s fair to wonder whether the struggles of a TV\u00a0property on the big screen is making Lucasfilm think more strongly about bringing back Rey \u2014 the hero of their previous big-screen\u00a0Star Wars<\/em>\u00a0franchise \u2014 in a new movie.<\/p>\n

The next\u00a0Star Wars\u00a0film<\/em>,\u00a0Star Wars: Starfighter\u00a0<\/em>starring Ryan Gosling, opens in theaters on May 28, 2027.<\/p>\n

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