Jon Watts Is Reportedly Directing Star Wars: Episode X — Here's What That Actually Means
Deadline reported Friday that Lucasfilm has tapped Jon Watts — the Spider-Man: Homecoming trilogy director and Skeleton Crew co-creator — to direct the first film in Simon Kinberg's new Skywalker Saga trilogy. Multiple outlets are already calling it Episode X. Lucasfilm hasn't officially confirmed the hire, and the project still isn't greenlit, but the reporting is specific and widely corroborated.
Filoni's Own Star Wars Movie Just Lost a Scheduling Fight — Here's Why
Two and a half weeks ago I wrote that Dave Filoni's own MandoVerse crossover movie looked like it was moving through pre-production alongside Rey's New Jedi Order. Reporting from Parade and ScreenRant earlier this year complicates that: Filoni's film has reportedly been sitting on the back burner since around January, specifically because Simon Kinberg's new post-Skywalker trilogy has been accelerated ahead of it.