Lucasfilm taps Simon Kinberg to produce a new Star Wars trilogy
American filmmaker Simon Kinberg has entered into an agreement with Lucasfilm to head up the creation of a new feature film trilogy in the Star Wars universe.
Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy will produce the three new sci-fi pics with Kinberg, who is also writing the scripts. Their plan is to break away from the storylines and characters established by the nine-episode Skywalker Saga in order to expand the universe’s lore and bring in new generations of fans.
Kinberg has nearly 20 years of experience writing and producing franchise-led films, with credits including Sherlock Holmes (2009), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), Deadpool and Wolverine (2024) and Paramount’s upcoming Star Trek reboot. He’s also no stranger to the galaxy far, far away, having created and executive produced all four seasons of CG-animated series Star Wars: Rebels (75 x 22 minutes, pictured), which aired from 2014 to 2018.
Lucasfilm has been trying to get a new Star Wars trilogy off the ground for the past six years, originally giving Last Jedi director Rian Johnson the keys to the franchise in 2018, and then taking them back a year later to let Game of Thrones co-creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss try their hand at developing a concept exploring stories about the first Jedi and how their order was formed. So far, there has been no word about the direction Kinberg intends to take in his storytelling.
