Rian Johnson is making The Last Jedi but Jurassic World’s Colin Trevorrow is the one responsible for Episode IX.
Rian Johnson supposedly asked J.J. Abrams to make a small tweak to The Force Awakens, and on the MTV podcast Happy Sad Confused, Trevorrow revealed that he asked Johnson to shoot something that would pay off in Episode IX.
The obvious follow-up question is whether Kathleen Kennedy or anyone else has asked Trevorrow to put something into Episode IX specifically to pay off down the road.
Episode VIII, The Last Jedi, is in post-production now and headed to theaters this winter.