Disney Studios Announces Release Date for STAR WARS: EPISODE IX

According to Deadline, Disney has today unveiled a May 24, 2019 release date for the highly anticipated STAR WARS: Episode IX (in 3D). Not much has been revealed about Episode IX, other than that the script will be penned by Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly. Earlier this month, Lucasfilm exec Kathleen KENNEDY said that late actress Carrie Fisher would not appear in her role as Princess Leia in the newest installment.

Star Wars: Episode IX marks the ninth film in the Star Wars saga and the final film in the sequel trilogy. It will be produced under the Disney-Lucasfilm brand. The film will be directed by Colin Trevorrow and produced by Kathleen KENNEDY and J.J. Abrams, and will be based on a story by Star Wars: Episode VIII The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson.

The Star Wars sequel trilogy is the third film trilogy in the Star Wars American space opera franchise, created by George Lucas. It is being produced by Lucasfilm Ltd. and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. The trilogy is to consist of episodes VII through IX and chronologically follows Return of the Jedi (1983) in the saga. Lucas originally planned a sequel trilogy in the mid-1970s, but had abandoned these plans by the late 1990s. The Walt Disney Company acquired Lucasfilm in late 2012 and then announced the production of a sequel trilogy.

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