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 Jurassic World’s Colin Trevorrow is no longer the
director of Star Wars: Episode IX. Lucasfilm released a statement that basically
said the parties had creative differences. The script wasn’t there and his
attempts to fix it didn’t work. Jack Thorne is now working on the script. The
event follows the firing of Phil Lord and Chris Miller from the Han Solo film,
extensive reshoots of Gareth Edwards’ Rogue One by another director and the
firing of Fantastic Four’s Josh Trank from a film that was never named. Friction
with Lucasfilm’s Kathleen Kennedy sealed Trevorrow’s fate. His personality
grated on her because when he was making Jurassic World he had free reign to
express his opinion. That didn’t work here because he came off as arrogant. Once
the move was announced then someone had to come in to take over and the hot
rumor was since there were no issues with Star Wars: The Last Jedi Rian Johnson
would return. He wasn’t interested in doing it right away and had no connection
with the Episode IX script. So they asked JJ Abrams to return to finish off the
trilogy. He and Argo’s Chris Terrio are now working on the script. And with the
move instead of Star Wars: Episode IX being in theaters May 24th 2019 it will
now come out on December 20th 2019. Paramount isn’t very happy with the
announcement since Abrams has a production deal with them but aren’t openly
complaining about it just yet. |
