Filmmaker Colin Trevorrow will not direct Star Wars: Episode IX:
Star Wars: Episode IX needs a new director. Lucasfilm has announced that Jurassic World filmmaker Colin Trevorrow is leaving the project. [...] Playwright Jack Thorne, best known for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, was recently hired to do a comprehensive rewrite of the Episode IX script by Trevorrow and his Safety Not Guaranteed co-screenwriter Derek Connolly.
While the nature of the disagreement with Lucasfilm isn't clear, there have been rumblings of discontent for several months. During that time, Trevorrow also suffered withering reviews for his passion project, The Book of Henry, which was a critical and commercial calamity.
Although Lucasfilm's new movies have found immense success at the box office and with audiences and critics, the process of working with directors on the new saga and spin-offs has occasionally been fraught. Chronicle filmmaker Josh Trank was set to direct an unspecified stand-alone movie (believed to be a Boba Fett project) before parting ways amid chaos on the recent Fantastic Four movie. And The LEGO Movie directors Phil Miller and Chris Lord were removed from the young Han Solo film and replaced with veteran Ron Howard amid disputes over the state of that project.
Star Wars IX was planned for release on May 24, 2019. Star Wars: The Last Jedi comes out on December 15, 2017.
Also at The Hollywood Reporter (discussion). Lucasfilm statement.
Safety Not Guaranteed or Steins;Gate?
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday September 06 2017, @09:17PM (4 children)
What does this last line have to do with anything?
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 06 2017, @09:49PM (3 children)
I just wasted too much time trying to figure it out. "Safety Not Guaranteed" was an indie movie directed by Trevorrow, but his name doesn't come up on that anime movie Steins;Gate. Both movies are about time travel, so maybe Takyon is just obsessed with tachyons? Or could be they were microdosing at the time and there is the most tenuous connection between them all?
(Score: 3, Funny) by takyon on Wednesday September 06 2017, @10:08PM (2 children)
Maybe I was macrodosing DXM.
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 06 2017, @10:13PM (1 child)
Oh shoot, better check to see if you killed anyone, I hear that happens.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Thursday September 07 2017, @01:55AM
Nope, but he got his girlfriend stuck in the bathroom window.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek