Star Wars spinoff movies confirmed
By Alexandra Heilbron on February 7, 2013 | 10 Comments
Disney, which bought the rights to Star Wars creator George Lucas’ company Lucasfilm last year, has confirmed that work has begun on at least three Star Wars spinoffs.
Chief executive Bob Iger said, “We are in fact working on a few stand-alone films. [Lawrence] Kasdan and Simon Kinberg are both working on films derived from great Star Wars characters that are not part of the overall saga. So we plan to make Star Wars VII, VIII and IX over roughly a six-year period of time starting in 2015. But there are going to be a few other films released in that period of time, too.”
Many are speculating that one of the films will center around the popular character Yoda. Kasdan wrote the screenplay for two of the early Star Wars films — Episode V — The Empire Strikes Back and Episode VI — Return of the Jedi.
This will be Kinberg’s first Star Wars film – he’s known for writing the screenplays for Mr. & Mrs. Smith and X-Men: The Last Stand.
As previously announced, J.J. Abrams will be directing the first film in the trilogy.
Comments & Discussion
Similar Articles
Which Star Wars actor’s script ended up on eBay?
November 28, 2019 | 4 Comments
During an appearance this week, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker director J.J. Abrams revealed that one of the major stars of the film lost their script.
Star Wars cast tributes to Peter Mayhew aka Chewbacca
May 3, 2019 | Leave a Comment
Sad news for Star Wars fans. It was announced yesterday that Peter Mayhew, known as the lovable Chewbacca in the Star Wars films, passed away at his home.
Star Wars Celebration: where, how and what to watch
April 11, 2019 | 1 Comment
The 20th Star Wars Celebration is in Chicago this year. Highlighting the four-day event will be the reveal of Episode IX’s official title, poster and trailer.
Please don’t mess this up!
Oh god so worried here. Plzzzzz just plzzzzzz be careful!!!! I smell pirates of the caribbean man!!! Plz don’t mess up!!
Noooooooo!!!!!!
JJ Abrams should direct all 3
I agree….please don’t mess it up. This is changing the face of a historical franchise. J.J. is a great choice for fast pace action and character development but can he re-invigorate Star Wars? Especially since the master and inventor himself (Lucas) failed to breathe the same life into it after the original 3.
J.J. Abrams is a great director, not as good as Joss Whedon but I think he will do an outstanding job compared to the last three films. I do however think they should start off the next three with the killing of Jar Jar Binks!
How the f**k can JJ mess up Star Wars anymore than Lucas himself did with Episodes 1-3??? Get a grip people.
Nobody Important on February 7, 2013 10:36 AM Please don’t mess this up!
——————
Please don’t steal other people’s usernames.
Elise. if you think Ellen`s artlclee is neat… last saturday I got a great new Mini Cooper since I been bringin in $4698 this – 5 weeks past and also ten grand last month. this is actually the coolest job Ive ever had. I began this 8-months ago and pretty much straight away began to bring in at least $85, per-hour. I went to this site,, jump15.comCHECK IT OUT
Oh I bet this will be a mess! Pleaseeeee be careful.