It was recently revealed that Lucasfilm and Kathleen Kennedy hired writer, director, and producer Simon Kinberg to write and produce a new Star Wars trilogy. We don’t know what exactly this trilogy will be,

On top of the previously announced standalone big-screen projects, a new trilogy of Star Wars movies is now in active development at Lucasfilm.

When news broke on Thursday that Simon Kinberg — best known for being a writer, producer, director or all of the above on much of the “X-Men” franchise — had been hired by Lucasfilm to write and produce a new “Star Wars” trilogy,

The Last Stand," "Fantastic Four” and "Dark Phoenix," will write and produce a new trio of films for the “Star Wars” franchise.

LOS ANGELES – It’s off to space for Disney once more. Lucasfilm is developing a new “Star Wars” trilogy. This was reported by sources from Deadline, who say the multi-billion dollar company closed a deal with Simon Kinberg to write and produce the new series.

Kinberg is an established presence in the genre space. He had a hand in the Fox X-Men movies, being one of the producers of Logan and the first two Deadpool movies, among many other creative duties. And he is about to go into production on Edgar Wright’s take on Stephen King tale The Running Man for Paramount.

New reports reveal why Lucasfilm boss Kathleen Kennedy personally reached out to Simon Kinberg to write and produce the new Star Wars trilogy.