With Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, for starters, there were reports about Tony Gilroy taking the helm on extensive reshoots for the project instead of Gareth Edwards.
J.J. Abrams and Rian Johnson seemingly didn’t have any issues making Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Star Wars: The Last Jedi, but every other feature that has been developed since Disney purchased Lucasfilm has had some kind of issue with directors.
Josh Trank, you might remember, was hired to make a Star Wars project and then fired amid all of the Fantastic Four drama, and Colin Trevorrow was initially signed on to make the final movie of the Sequel Trilogy before Abrams was given the reigns again.
There are many reasons why this news is interesting, but the one that sticks out is that this is far from the first time in the modern era of Star Wars that we have seen issues arise with filmmakers hired to direct these movies.