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Colin Trevorrow no longer directing Episode IX.

In truth there is nothing really wrong with a Dec 2019 release but it's just a pain having to wait 6 more months when I was looking forward to getting it sooner.

What is annoying is that this happens always with JJ movies. The Trek Reboot was announced in 2006 with a planned 2008 release. That got pushed to 2009. Into Darkness had a 2012 release which was pushed to 2013 (4 years after the first film).
Disney bought Star Wars in 2012 with a release date of May 2015. That was pushed to December 2015 which pushed back all the other Star Wars movies. Episode 9 seemed to be getting back on track of the schedule. It wouldn't surprised me if the film gets pushed back more now because JJ is on board.
 
Episode IX was pushed back because, with Abrams now on board, the film is essentially being built from scratch. It has less to do with Abrams himself, and more to do with the circumstances involving Colin Trevorrow that led us to this point.
 
Indeed. If Trevorrow turned in his script a few months ago and they're now taking it back to square one that is 6 months of time lost AT LEAST.
 
As I understand it, Trevorrow was still having trouble delivering a script at the time of his firing, even with writer Jack Thorne having been brought in to help just last month.
 
Saul said:
In truth there is nothing really wrong with a Dec 2019 release but it's just a pain having to wait 6 more months when I was looking forward to getting it sooner.

What is annoying is that this happens always with JJ movies. The Trek Reboot was announced in 2006 with a planned 2008 release. That got pushed to 2009. Into Darkness had a 2012 release which was pushed to 2013 (4 years after the first film).
Disney bought Star Wars in 2012 with a release date of May 2015. That was pushed to December 2015 which pushed back all the other Star Wars movies. Episode 9 seemed to be getting back on track of the schedule. It wouldn't surprised me if the film gets pushed back more now because JJ is on board.
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Movies being pushed back is hardly unique to to ones directed by J.J. Abrams. Happens all the time. Hell 'Star Wars' was originally slated for a Christmas '76 release before being pushed back to summer '77 because of huge production delays.
 
Emh said:
Let's not forget that Abrams wasn't the sole writer of The Force Awakens: He shared writing duties with Lawrence Kasdan and Michael Arndt. Abrams was also not the executive producer, so he didn't have as much creative control as some people may give him credit for.

And I say this as someone who hates his Star Trek films.
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This here.
 
Arndt was credited for TFA, but Abrams and Kasdan pretty much threw out his entire script and rewrote the film to be a representation of - and an attempt to recapture - the things that they felt upon walking out of the theater after first having seen ANH in May 1977.
 
DigificWriter said:
Episode IX was pushed back because, with Abrams now on board, the film is essentially being built from scratch. It has less to do with Abrams himself, and more to do with the circumstances involving Colin Trevorrow that led us to this point.
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Yes well, that may be the case, but it being built from scratch might have been one of Abrams requisites before accepting the job in the same way he wanted a blank slate before taking on Episode VII.
 
At the time Abrams signed on to direct TFA, Arndt was still writing the script; it wasn't until several months later that Arndt's work was discarded and Abrams and Kasdan rewrote things.
 
I could be wrong here but that script was based on the outline that Lucas gave? I thought Abrams had said that why he hadn't wanted to do episode VII in the beginning was because he didn't want to film that script and wanted to make his own Star Wars film and that was ultimately what got him onboard in the first place.
 
Here's a partial timeline of TFA's development relative to the scripting process:
November 9, 2012 - Michael Arndt is announced as screenwriter, working off of outlines provided by George Lucas

January 25, 2013 - J.J. Abrams, after some prodding from Steven Spielberg, is announced as director, with Simon Kinberg and Lawrence Kasdan as consultants

October 24, 2013 - Abrams and Kasdan take over screenwriting duties, discarding much of Arndt's work, as well as Lucas' outlines, and starting over
 
Disney-era Star Wars is all but dead to me now, even though I think Episode VIII will be good. I was excited to see Abrams' take on both Trek and SW when new films were first announced, but he has shown no interest in doing anything imaginative with either universe. He just serves up a bunch of admittedly impressive set pieces and fanwanky references held together by a perfunctory plot with little real drama. He's managed to make me a purist old school fan of both franchises (SW through 1996 and Trek through DS9). And I never thought I'd consider myself a purist. I was excited for the prequels when they were announced and still cherish Stover's ROTS novelization.

Time for me to get over SW and watch Deadwood or The Leftovers.
 
N-121973 said:
You're missing your queue, I think you meant:
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Normally I would never correct someone else's spelling, but i think you mean 'cue' instead of 'queue' (as in waiting in a queue). I'm only pointing it out because I've had it pointed out to me before and the first thing I thought was, OMG I'm super thankful someone pointed that out.
 
Burning Hearts of Qo'nOs said:
Normally I would never correct someone else's spelling, but i think you mean 'cue' instead of 'queue' (as in waiting in a queue). I'm only pointing it out because I've had it pointed out to me before and the first thing I thought was, OMG I'm super thankful someone pointed that out.
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That's okay I was in a rush when I rote it, sorry wrote it ;).
 
Geekgarious said:
Disney-era Star Wars is all but dead to me now, even though I think Episode VIII will be good. I was excited to see Abrams' take on both Trek and SW when new films were first announced, but he has shown no interest in doing anything imaginative with either universe. He just serves up a bunch of admittedly impressive set pieces and fanwanky references held together by a perfunctory plot with little real drama. He's managed to make me a purist old school fan of both franchises (SW through 1996 and Trek through DS9). And I never thought I'd consider myself a purist. I was excited for the prequels when they were announced and still cherish Stover's ROTS novelization.

Time for me to get over SW and watch Deadwood or The Leftovers.
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the ST isn't the only part of the Star Wars Franchise.
 
Quite the contrary in fact. Aside from the movies, they've only just barley touched on the ST era. Most of the new material in terms of comics, books and short stories has been mostly focused on the OT with a little bot in the PT.
 
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