Star Wars: The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson says the new trilogy he was recently announced to be developing will not be connected to the current Star Wars trilogy “at all.”
Before Johnson can get to work re-inventing Star Wars, as far as he is allowed to do so, his completed Star Wars: The Last Jedi must have its day of reckoning in front of fans.
Who can say where the Star Wars franchise will be in terms of overall health by the time the spinoff Solo: A Star Wars Story and the final episode in the current trilogy have come and gone.
Unlike Chris Lord and Phil Miller, Gareth Edwards and Colin Trevorrow, all of whom found themselves being replaced at various stages during production of their own Star Wars projects, Johnson managed to stick it out all the way through the making of The Last Jedi, and was rewarded by being given the keys to his own new trilogy.