What’s interesting is that this clarification comes after director Rian Johnson confirmed that his new Star Wars trilogy is not, in fact, connected to the current movies like Star Wars: The Force Awakens, this month’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi and 2019’s Star Wars 9, which closes out this trilogy.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi will be the only Star Wars movie to be set directly after the events of the previous movie, with all of the other Star Wars movies given a considerable time gap between movies, but with literally no time gap between The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi, it may make it tricky to set spin-offs within that time period.
Last week, actress Daisy Ridley made some interesting comments about her future in the Star Wars franchise, claiming that she was done playing Rey after Star Wars 9.
It’s possible that there will be a time jump between The Last Jedi and Star Wars 9, but that has yet to be confirmed.