{"id":53193,"date":"2024-11-07T13:19:43","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T18:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=53193"},"modified":"2024-11-07T13:19:43","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T18:19:43","slug":"simon-kinberg-reportedly-signed-to-develop-produce-new-star-wars-trilogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2024\/11\/07\/simon-kinberg-reportedly-signed-to-develop-produce-new-star-wars-trilogy\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Kinberg Reportedly Signed To Develop\/Produce New STAR WARS Trilogy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Simon Kinberg is reportedly returning to the Star Wars<\/strong> galaxy.<\/p>\n

Deadline<\/a> is reporting from sources that Lucasfilm has closed a deal with the former X-men<\/strong> franchise creative to develop and produce a new trilogy of Star Wars<\/strong> films. Unsurprisingly, Lucasfilm and Disney had no comments.<\/p>\n

There seems to be some question as to what exactly this new Star Wars<\/strong> trilogy will be focused on. Deadline’s Mike Fleming Jr., who broke the story, states that he “heard this will comprise episodes 10-12 of The Skywalker Saga.” However, he does claim other sources have disputed that notion “saying this will instead begin a new saga, and sit alongside Star Wars percolating projects with James Mangold, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Taika Waititi and Donald Glover.”<\/p>\n

This is not Kinberg’s first journey to a galaxy far, far away. He previously helped to co-create the Emmy-nominated animated series Star Wars: Rebels<\/em> alongside Dave Filoni and Carrie Beck. That show ran for four seasons from 2014 to 218. He also consulted with JJ Abrams during the production of Episode VI: The Force Awakens<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

If this new trilogy does continue the numbered episodes of the Skywalker Saga films, it does raise a question as to the future of the project that is to feature Daisy Ridley’s Rey character set some fifteen years after the conclusion of Episode IX: The Rise Of Skywalker<\/strong>. The most recent reliable reporting on that project was that it was nearing a go-ahead for production under the direction of Obaid-Chinoy, though screenwriter Steven Knight had departed the project, presumably to start preproduction on his Peaky Blinders<\/strong> feature film. If Kinberg’s proposed trilogy is an extension of the Skywalker family story, does it supersede and thus cancel the Ridley\/Obaid-Chinoy project or is there a way that the two can exist side-by-side?<\/p>\n

Kinberg is coming off of nearly two decades working on the X-Men<\/strong> franchise at Fox, now a corporate sibling to Lucasfilm, as well as a number of other features. He wrote the screenplay for 2006’s X-Men: The Last Stand<\/strong>, produced 2011’s X-Men: First Class<\/strong>, wrote and produced on 2012’s X-Men: Days Of Future Past<\/strong> and 2016’s X-Men: Apocalypse<\/strong>. Kinberg also served as a producer on the X-Men<\/strong> spinoff films Deadpool<\/strong> (2016), Logan<\/strong> (2017), Deadpool 2<\/strong> (2018) and The New Mutants<\/strong> (2020). He made his feature directorial debut on the X-Men<\/strong> film Dark Phoenix<\/strong> (2019).<\/p>\n

Coincidentally, it was ten years ago yesterday, November 6, that the title for the seventh Star Wars<\/strong> film, The Force Awakens<\/strong>, was announced. It was the first in the sequel trilogy of the Skywalker saga films that launched the Disney-era of the Star Wars<\/strong> franchise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The STAR WARS REBELS co-creator will be taking a crack at developing a new live-action trilogy set in a galaxy far, far away.<\/div>\n

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